There is an age old adage in art and sports and life that nothing is original. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has one of my favorite iterations of this,
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
Now, I’m not sure I would go so far as to say baseball strategy would rise to the level of authentic art that speaks to anybodies soul.