Seriously?
Here's a novel concept: People need stability in order to perform at their peak levels. If Davey made as many panic moves as we suggest (slide the lineup around, shuttle somebody to AAA, DFA somebody, muck with the starting rotation/bullpen/fielders), you'd never get a chance to have a team develop.
Imagine if you came into work and your work assignment, pay, and work station was determined day-by-day based on how you did the day before, with little or no reliance on longer-term past performance. How would you do? Would you perform at your best because you were afraid of losing your place/pay/job? Could you sustain that level for years? Would the stress of being judged that minute-to-minute eventually lead you to make mistakes?
Aside from hard decisions being hard, especially when they affect a person's livelihood, shuffling people around and not giving them a stable environment in which to grow and work through difficulties is a bad way to manage anything, let alone a baseball team. Treat professionals like professionals - they know when they're not performing. When it becomes obvious that someone's talent isn't cutting it anymore (Lidge, Pudge), then you make the move in the most dignified way possible, so that all the other folks know that you're respectful of their contributions.
That's just management 101 and it's one of the reasons Davey's so much better than Panic Monkey Riggs.
Smart post. So now I have take back everything I've ever said about LostYudite.
