"I don't spend a lot of time worrying about whether analytics are a good thing or a bad thing, and the reason for that is they are a real thing," Manfred said. "We have them. They're going to continue to use them. There's nothing you can do to stop people from thinking about the game, however the heck it is they want to think about the game. I think what's incumbent upon us and what we try to do is pay attention over the course of the season ... think about we've learned during the postseason and see whether we may need to make some change in response to what we're seeing."