An aside...most of the baseball parts of the book were decent, or even good. The rest of it is a dumpster fire of bad writing and ridiculous characters. (in my opinion, of course).
I thought the writing was good enough, but aside from the baseball I did not care about the characters at all. I couldnt relate, nor did I want to relate, to any of them. i think I read it because it was on my agent‘s list, so I read it to show support for her clients. Or something like that. And I liked the cover premise, which is usually enough for me to give a book a shot. But like you, once past the baseball, I didn’t care for it, either.
Having said that, I did like the end, because I liked the hopeful idea that getting past a block isn’t because of a giant breakthrough, but by just keeping at it. That’s helped me a few times, and thought it might be relevant here. But as I’ve thought about it, I think there’s a good chance OPs DD just doesn’t want to pitch/play anymore.
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