“Thanks to [Atlanta Braves manager Bobby] Cox’s tenure and standing in the game (he ranks fourth on the all-time managerial win list) he has more latitude than most managers to try new things. But baseball has long discouraged … outside-the-box thinking, and the manager who makes an unusual move has to answer to second-guessing fans and reporters if it backfires.”
- the Stumblng Tumblr thinks that the author of the story (here) should’ve written “outside-the-diamond thinking”
- the story’s not about changing the rules of baseball, but about working better within the existing rules
- it seems from this that making any significant change to the rules of the game themselves isn’t a reasonable prospect
- the image above is from here
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Maybe he’s using “outside-the-box” like outside the batters’ box? I think it works when discussing having pitchers hit earlier in the lineup.
