GOODYEAR, Ariz.—Michael Lorenzen spent his first four seasons with the Cincinnati Reds begging for the opportunity to play in the outfield on days the team didn’t use him as a pitcher. When that failed, he escalated his plea to the front-office executives. Nothing convinced them, and Lorenzen thinks he knows why: fear of trying something new. “It’s just this weird mindset where we’re so scared of everything,” Lorenzen said by his locker here. “It’s so weird for me that, in professional sports, we’re...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 03, 2019 14:26 UTC