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Originally Posted by tibear
Why are the rules written in such as way as to seemingly benefit the offense.
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Seemingly? How about intentionally?
Even if the early days the owners of the game and the rules knew that people, for the most part, came to see hits and baserunners and scoring more than pitching and catching. Estimates from some are that the rules slant 20% or better towards the offense. This in one reason the umpire's job is not to guarantee "fairness", but rather to see to it that neither team gains an advantage "not intended by the rules", for the rules do intend some advantages.
Even the balk rules were intended to protect the runner and increase the liklihood of baserunning and scoring more so than punishing a pitcher for deception.
I'm just confused that this seems to be news. It has ever been thus.