It is well known that some players have baseball partly automated, i'm not pointing out who they are but they exist. People use auto-refresher browser-extensions to automate baseball partly and whenever a captcha comes up they solve them by hand. The captchas look like this most of the time:
its great that captchas exist but if they appear once a minute and all you have to do is click the button once then perhaps its kinda worth it partly automating this. The actually obnoxious picture solving captchas simply dont appear often enough to make botting unattractive. I absolutely dislike the idea of taking a part of the game away that people enjoy, but there needs to be some realization on Alex' part that people make absolute fortunes with something that with a realistic chance is tool assisted. And to be clear i'm not saying that every active baseball player is botting, but to think that nobody at all does it seems a bit naive.
This is to a large extent also a matter of balancing the game. You are absolutely correct when you say that it is actually becoming a main part of the game. In the current war people have lost most of their revenue and during all of this baseball players make hundreds of millions a week, funding their war efforts against their broke opponents who for the most part arent motivated to play baseball for hours themself, and it has an actual impact on the war. There is clearly a balancing issue at hand when people make 200m a week with this while others earn 1m a day by revenue during war time.
I think capping the amount of games you can play is a pretty fair proposal.