Armando Benitez expects nothing less than to be San Francisco's closer this season. The Giants want to evaluate him this spring before handing him back his old job. Benitez finished last season on the 60-day disabled list with two arthritic knees, the right one so painful he could hardly put pressure on it. The Giants ended his season Sept. 14 with the hopes he would be ready come spring training, and the 34-year-old Benitez says he feels as healthy as he has in two years after a winter of rehabilitation in Miami and his native Dominican Republic.