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Well it's still a moe-based show, but it doesn't rely solely on the moe appeal to keep the show together. The moe-ness comes out strongly but it doesn't overpower the premise, which is still cute girls playing baseball, emphasis on baseball. The show doesn't forget that the story is about 9 girls trying to learn how to play baseball to counter a rather sexist POV by a boy's school baseball team, which is likewise a thinly veiled representation of changing gender views of Japan at the turn of the century. There are actually other, smaller plot threads that helps emphasize this premise.
I mean yes it's still a bunch of cute girls as the main cast, but even then their personalities (most of them anyway) and wills come out strongly. They don't compromise baseball and the desire to learn and get better for visual eye candy. Even if they're being presented as cute, it's during either practice or a real game, and baseball almost never takes a back seat.
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