Reds' Manager Dusty Baker believes that the team needs to play better defensively in 2009. "Improved defense, big time," he said when asked what the team needs most. "There was a long period where we giving away one or two runs every game." Baker also wondered what might have been if Cincinnati hadn't suffered a myriad of injures. "If we hadn't led the league in broken bones, had eight or nine deaths of close relatives that take (their) toll emotionally, had to play so many different shortstops (six) and had so many injuries that left us thin in the outfield," he said.