It is always great to get clarifications of any rule, so I like what I see in these changes.
Looks to me like "confines of the field" has been expanded for some, and I hope we don't end up debating what designated means in "designated as a warm-up area".
To me, for now, it will be any area used as such "adjacent to the field and within view of the umpire(s)" and "adjacent to the field" will mean an area where there is no usable space between it and the field fence/boundary.
And thanks, Tom.
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