“We’re trying to look on the bright side of being able to take advantage of some of this time without games to get up to speed on some big-picture projects that we had anticipated taking longer, or that are usually confined to the offseason, because during the season you have this day-to-day flow of issues that land on your desk,” executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said on a video conference call Monday. “Amongst those are building our internal scouting and information and analytics database, which we have really ramped up and is basically up to industry standards at this point already, we believe.”