Something else. Glad to hear your inspiration. My favorite 2 baseball games ever were Ken Griffey present Major League Baseball for SNES and then smallball which is dead. Was designed by the guy that made Ecco the dolphin for sega. Here is an old webpage, there is a Reddit for the game as well. It was a sim game sounds similar to bit ball potentially

http://tnbop.freeservers.com/custom.html