Personally, I find baseball is hard sport to get into if you weren't raised on it. Not as in its overly complex, just hard to care about. Especially with all all these "unwritten rules" basically telling players not to have fun with it.
Baseball rules aren't complex.
But the scenarios that players have to do before each pitch ARE complex.
That's the part the casual fan doesn't understand.
They just see people standing around. But man on 1st and 2nd...line drive hit to center...who covers 2nd? Who's the cutoff man? What if there's a double steal? What if he bunts? And so on.
All these little things have to get processed by every position player before every single pitch depending on where the ball is hit, or not hit...what kind of hit (pop up, line drive, grounder...)
It's a way more cerebral game than people think.
