‘“2011 is my only experience with no offseason, so if that were to happen and those are some of the conversations that Sean and I had one-on-one, and with our respective staffs of what that was like, in 2011,” Beane said. “We were signing free agents in August to go start training camp. I mean it was something I’ve never seen so it did take us time to get that rolling, and so I think that will help us.”’