Sorry to hear of your horrible vacation Markus. Personally, I think vacations are totally over-rated to begin with
How about low-A, and rookie-level minor leagues with shorter seasons? Spring training with actual games, and the option to run different sorts of drill sessions such as fielding drills, hitting drills, throwing, etc. I also liked the idea for a more in-depth manager mode with something like weekly comments from the owner. Better yet would be weekly reports from your scout about minor leaguers that had a good week, perhaps a hitter and pitcher of the week. I'll second the ideas about mound visits, the option to steal with two strikes, and the option to call pitches. Someday it would be great if you could make the number and type of pitches effect a pitchers stats, for instance a lefty having to develope a change-up to get righties out. Also, it would be nice if a player with A range and .930 fielding percentage could actually develope into A range with .970+ fielding range. I also can't find where the catcher's runners thrown out average is in the batting reports.