[bgheadjack]

Suggestion:
A greater sense of team and league history, meaning the ability to retire numbers for your team, putting players into your team hall of fame, being able to write a HOF plaque to ensure that you'll always remember what significant contributions your player made (perhaps he won some WS in a dramatic way, or perhaps he just turned around your teams fortunes after a long drought, ala Paul O'Neill).

Detailed record books for the overall league as well as your team are vital. It would be great to be able to see where your player ranks on the all-time and active lists from his player screen (so, for example, you open A-Rod's page and see his career numbers, but you also see that he's (16th) all-time in homers and (4th) on the active list. Baseball-reference.com could be a fantastic template. Go there and click on Barry Bonds and see all the great info.

Last idea - have these numbers, and perhaps even player notes, able to be edited. That way if you want to create a player with 700 homers you can, or if your power goes off and your guy had a 20 K game without it saving, you can fix it.

Reason
One of the things that makes baseball the greatest sport in the world is its deep sense of history and its meaningful stats (they're actually culturally meaningful). Brett Favre just broke the all-time TD record and it was buried in the middle of the sports page. Barry Bonds HR chase dominated all media for months. Baseball is different, and a game needs to respect that.

Monument Park in Yankee Stadium...the retired numbers of Angels greats on the OF wall in Anaheim...this adds such a rich texture that would really take this game to the next level.

Priority
Medium-high.