You guys don't realise that the difference between the Danny we want to DFA and the Danny we want to let start is the difference between him hitting 22% of the time and 25% of the time. He's an MLB starter on many inferior teams, and he's almost good enough to be a multi win player by WAR.
There are quite a few problems here.
1. It's not between him hitting 22% or 25% of the time. In 2011 Danny hit .223/.314/.393 against RHP with a 9%/26% BB/K ratio. Last year he hit .183/.241/.291 against RHP with a 4%/39% BB/K ratio. This is not "lucky bounces". He's never been able to hit for average, but now he doesn't control the strike zone at all, and when he makes contact (seldom) he hits for very little power. When you cut your walks 60%, up your strikeouts 50%, and hit for 33% less power, that's not a few lucky bounces away from being playable.
2. He's not a starter on many inferior teams hitting .183/.241/.291 against RHP. As shown below, as a starter last year he'd likely have a wOBA of .265 or so, and that's lower than all but 2 players in the major leagues - Zach Cozart and Matt Dominguez, who both have far different hitting profiles. The only other player close to his hitting profile who's so low is BJ Upton, who is the biggest joke in the league. But really, no one would play him fulltime while he strikes out 40% of the time against RHP.
3. He's not a multi-win player in full-time play, or even close. He finished with 0.6 wins last year despite being platooned enough to have only a 1/2 ratio of at bats vs. LHP to at bats vs. RHP. If you weight his wOBA 1 to 4 like a normal everyday player might have, you get a weighted wOBA of .265 last year. By comparison, Andrelton Simmons who is the best defensive player in the majors, has a wOBA of .273 last year (HIGHER!) and was only worth 2.3 wins - which was basically his defensive value. So to say Danny is a multi-win player, you're basically saying he's a better than plus-2 win defender, which isn't true.
