Will non baseball fans like The Cactus League? Will fans?

What can I say about Emily Nemens's new (2020) novel, The Cactus League, except that I wish I'd like it more? The premise or concept is good: An inside look at the life and culture of major-league baseball through a series of loosely connected stories about various figures in the life of the LA Lions (aka Dodgers?) at the spring-training facility in Scottsdale. And the figures are not always the players themselves; we get a chapter/story about an agent, a hot-dog vender, a gathering of the players's wives, and others. The novel gets off to a good start, as EN captures well the look and feel of the training facility - I can vouch for that, having toured the Dodgers' site in AZ. But as the novel moves along its premise becomes ever shakier. In the first story we meet the star of the team and the central figure, Jason Goodyear, a guy with a squeaky-clean public image but w/ massive problems (mostly, a gambling addiction) that threatens his image and career. Well, its hard to believe this to be possible in this day and age of intense media scrutiny and culture of iPhones and instagram et al - and of course the team would go to great lengths to keep its star (2 mvps!) player in check. EN gives Goodyear a shot at redemption in the last story, which feels engineered and not sufficient to release Goodyear from his demons. Some of the stories en route are pretty good - but EN's knowledge about baseball is a bit suspect; to give just one ex., no MLB team would have a pitcher throw a 9-inning complete game in early- to mid- spring training. Most troubling, EN sets up a mystery in the first chapter that really had me curious - one of the coaches shows up in Scottsdale to find his house completely trashed. Who dunnit? EN never tells us - the set-up story is dropped by the wayside. So, unfortunately, it's likely that much of her ideal readership will be put off by too many facets of the novel, and I'm not sure how widely it would appeal to non-fans. Well, she needs no support from me; reviews have been strong, so, maybe I'm an outlier.