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To be honest, I don't think suspended games should have been implemented as a feature.
Firstly, at the major league level, suspended games are rare. (They are more common at the minor league level, but that's because in the minors a game can be suspended at any point.) Secondly, if handled correctly, they introduce all sorts of statistical quirks because the statistics from a suspended game are credited to the date a game was started, not completed. (This means a player can be credited with an appearance date before the date he actually took the field, leagues standings are retroactively changed once the game is completed, etc.) Thirdly, the rules around suspended games have changed over time (e.g. the ability to suspended a major league game due to weather was introduced in 1980) as well as differing between the majors and minors.
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