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... and just like that ... Ryan is batting 2nd and Figgy is hitting 8th.
I do soooo love a manager who seems to have a real sense of the balance between knee-jerk response and patient examination.
He sticks with Cust and Ryan ... and eventually they start hitting. 
IMO, he waited the appropriate amount of time in moving Figgins for two reasons ...
First ... Figgy has a solid HISTORY of hitting .700 ... so, he deserves a longer leash than say, Ryan.  But, the club obviously saw something in Ryan that they felt they could work with.
But, the more important reason to keep hitting Figgins #2 was that there wasn't a better option for most of the year.  Heck, Kennedy was hitting CLEANUP due to the putrescence of the Ms lineup.  You can't hit him everywhere.  But, at this point ... with Ryan, Olivo, Smoak and Cust all hitting a little and Guti back, *NOW* he's actually got a little lineup flexibility that he didn't have previously.