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A sandwich of outfielders

What’s the collective noun for a group of outfielders?

“Team” is basic. An “outfit” of outfielders might be too on the nose. I like “basket” in homage to Willie Mays’s basket catch, but that’s already claimed by fruit, or I guess, anything you put in a basket. A garden? A web? Or maybe just a catch—cognate, and play on cache— “a catch of outfielders.”

Trying to think a bit outside the box, I did some digging, and there is no official collective noun for a group of giants, but a handy site dedicated to collective nouns ” suggested words like “magnificence” or “clash” to “emphasize [the fantasy creatures’] larger-than-life presence when they congregate together.