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| - All-Star Game: The ability to adjust the All-Star Game host site/stadium to any stadium in the league or a neutral site. All-Stars vs. Defending Champs. Awards: Breakout Player of the Year. Comeback Player of the Year. Bronze Spikes - best/most efficient baserunner of the year. Minor League Player of the Year (with each league [AAA/AA/A, etc.], organization or organization level options). Platinum Glove. All-Decade/Century Team. Up to three custom awards. Icons for All-Star MVPs and perfect games, along with the other new awards. Coaches: First-base and third-base coaches (with aggressiveness ratings). Bullpen coaches. Catching and baserunning coaches. Assistant pitching and batting coaches. Player-managers. Manager ejections; sometimes to defend a star player and other times to light a fire for a team. Tougher to hire outstanding or legendary hosts (not stashing them in the minor leagues either.) Ability to hire coaches and managers away from other teams. Ability to trade coaches and managers to other teams. Induction to the Hall of Fame. Numbers. Contracts: Deferred money contracts. Limited no-trade clauses. Player contracts up to fifteen years. Team and player options up to five years. More incentives. Vesting options, milestone bonuses. Eat part of a contract. Maximum player salary. Newspaper headlines for whenever a Cuban detects. More players announcing their planned retirements in the start/middle of season. Multi-team trades that involve three, four or even five teams. Finances: Ballpark/stadium name sponsorships. New personnel (President, Executive Vice President, President of Baseball Operations, etc.) Competitive Balance Tax. Injuries: Many more bizarre or abnormal injuries. Concussion (7 Day DL). Nagging injuries that carry on for the next few weeks. Tommy John Surgery. Total injured days by organization and player's career. Players getting injured in the rain. Newspaper: Articles about winning streaks, with updates, similar to the hitting streaks. Many, many new newspaper story headlines and stories. Newspaper being more era-reflective. More news about players underperforming and having bad interactions with fans and vice-verca. Whenever a top 10 or top 20 origanizational prospect gets called up. Play-By-Play: How did a players' ratings (including defensive or speed) affect a play? How did a coach or managers' ratings affect a play? How did a stadium's size affect a play? Certain highlights from out-of-town games being sprinkled in. This day in history (team, baseball or world). Players: Temper rating, for how often they get into arguments with umpires. Assign a player as a team captain. More angry, unhappy or upset players should show up on the Trading Block and be more tradable. ETA for prospects. Facial hair! Players with a preference on region to play. How many days of rest between each start for a pitcher in a season or career. Players gaining or losing weight. Pitchers adding more pitches to their repertoire, being taught by veterans, pitching coaches and former players. Fielders should have slightly lowered defensive ratings in stadiums they never played in before. Who are the best friends and biggest enemies from every player? Players can play until they are 55 years old (Jamie Moyer was 50 and still wants to play). Players coming out of retirement without commissioner mode. Players with higher popularity should be more likely to get voted in to the All Star Game. Personal catchers. More fatigue and players asking for a day off (but rarely). Pitchers should become fatigued if you warm them up too long or too often, or cannot get warm for an outing. All of the uniform numbers for a player. When you hover over the ice and fire icons to distinguish "Hot and Cold Players," you can see their stats, such as 10 for 12 with 4 homers or 0-3 with a 9.75 ERA. New ratings for prospects to help determine the likelihood that they will reach their potentials, such as risky, safe and extreme. Stadiums: Stadium creation, including asking a city or owner for money. Snowouts option. 26-man rosters. Increased attendance for rivalries (Red Sox-Yankees etc.) Overpopulated stadiums for various games and playoff games. Promotion dates for higher attendance. Stats per stadium per year. Stats and Splits: Grand Slams (in the stats section). Lead-off Home Runs Stats vs. Team Walk-off Hits 1-2-3 Innings See stats from a certain time period (1908-1921 or 2009-2015). Youngest and oldest debuts. See records/stats from everyone as a rookie/final season/certain age. Most and fewest days played in the minor leagues. Streaks: Consecutive scoreless innings. Consecutive games played. Consecutive innings played. Consecutive batters retired. Team History: Keeping track of the longest winning streaks, losing streaks, and all-time team vs. team records. How many (insert stat here) in the franchise's history? Team Stats: Elimination number. Record vs. teams over or under .500. Longest winning/losing streaks of the season. Umpires: Umpires with specific tendencies (quick triggers for ejections, hitter's umpire, pitcher's umpire). Other: Customize the stats you want to see. Player agents. Stop some of the bad AI trades, or the unthinkable (trading Jeter or Konerko after 10+ years with one team and beloved by fans). Way to see the most developed and most regressed players by team and in the entire game. 7-man rotation. League-wide retired numbers. World Baseball Classic.
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