ANALYSIS/OPINION:
WALDORF, Md. — Stan Cliburn is a baseball lifer — 47 years in the game, and he thought he’d seen it all. He’s played at every level and managed at most as well. But this summer, at the age of 62, the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs manager is seeing something new.
Cliburn has a front-row seat to perhaps the future of the Major League Baseball, which this season is using the Atlantic League’s minor league games as a testing ground for ideas to speed up pace of play and create more action in the game.