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Cricket, with its dizzying variations in bowling styles and paces - spin, swing, seam - is very different from baseball, in which the only really unique pitchers seem to be knuckleball pitchers, who are dying out it seems.
What? Each pitcher is unique. They all have their own repertoire of pitches (and there isn't just one type of fastball, there are dozens, just as there are many variations of curve balls), but they can't dance around like an ass before they deliver the ball to disguise it. They have to depend on their own abilities. The duel between pitcher and batter has created some of the game's greatest moments.
And the diamond is just the perfect size. If the bases were even just a little closer or farther away you wouldn't have so many exciting plays, such as double plays or the many close plays at the plate that are almost literally a tie in many instances between the runner and the baseman catching the ball.
If you prefer cricket that's fine, but don't try to make it sound like baseball is boring because it's anything but if you understand the strategies and intricacies of the game.