2/26/2010

A manager that wants to win

Imagine that.
DAYTON — Dragons manager Todd Benzinger knows the parent Reds are all about developing players for the big leagues, but he thinks the organization can do even more.

“Developing players and winning games don’t have to be separate things,” the second-year manager said Wednesday, Feb. 24, at Fifth Third Field.

Benzinger took a glance at patches of snow on the playing field and said he was looking forward to the season, “as long as it doesn’t look that way in April.”

He also doesn’t want his team to look as it did last year, when it went 59-80 and missed the Midwest League playoffs for the fourth time in 10 seasons.
Missed the playofs for the fourth time in 10 seasons? Let's see...Dayton made the playoffs from 2000-2002 and again in 2007-2008. Missing '03-'06 and '09.

That looks like five in and five out in 10 years. I'm sure I'm miscounting.

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