Fair enough, but that's not what he said.
Brown has no say in the matter. Brown is on the record saying he wants Diaz to get more PT but Dusty controls the lineups. Crane is the one who is okay with this. Brown didn't hire Dusty or give him an extension, and Crane damn sure won't fire Dusty in the middle of the season.
So we are stuck with Dusty and his refusal to make moves that increase our chances of winning individual games seemingly on the basis that it somehow increases our chances of winning in October when, as of now, we have a .5 game lead for the final wild card spot over the Jays and may be losing Yordan for a significant stretch. There is a non-zero chance this team will miss the playoffs if they can't get their shit together.
What was unthinkable on Opening Day is now not terribly hard to envision. In fact, Fangraphs pegs our chance of missing the playoffs at ~25% as of today. Add in significant missed time from Yordan, some likely regression from our young SPs, some regression from Dubon and the OF, and teams like the Mariners and Jays playing better and making moves to get better at the deadline, and sitting at home during the playoffs starts looking like a real possibility.
Hopefully, this reality will spark a sense of urgency in Dusty. My concern is that perhaps he's not complacent just incompetent. He did a great job during the postseason last year (helps when you get a historically great performance from the bullpen and Yordan hits 3 extremely well-timed HRs), and winning the WS made it easy to look back on his regular season decisions and give him the benefit of the doubt. But reducing a teams' chances to win an individual game matters much less when you win a division by 10 games. He needs to understand that there is almost zero chance we run away with the division this season and a shockingly high chance, given preseason expectations, we don't even make the postseason. In short, each game fucking matters. He should start acting like it.