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Are the Padres stealing signs? And, if so, how come they still suck?

Say this for the Padres, if they're stealing catchers' signs at Petco Park, they're not being very secretive about it. More to the point, they're not taking advantage of any inside knowledge.

According to For the Win, during Sunday's home game, Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina appeared to talk with home-plate umpire Sean Barber during Padre Brett Wallace's ninth-inning at-bat in which he represented the potential tying run with two on and two out in an 8-5 game.

After Wallace just missed squaring up a Trevor Rosenthal fastball, fouling it off, Molina pointed to the center-field camera position, where fans aren't allowed.