I think the run sign was given from the bench with the 3-2 count. So, I don't attribute fault to him on that. If you are going to counter that by saying that I don't know if farrell sent him, then he went on his own and he should only have gone if he got a good enough jump that he was sure to make it and not risk a second out on the bases.
As for Farrell's coaching of the running game, he has a history of letting his players run wild and stupid. Omar Vizquel called him out on it when he was playing for Toronto under Farrell.
I seem to be in the minority here, but I have no problem with Beni trying to stretch that single into a double. It was probably too risky, but that is not a play that I would consider stupid.
I'm not sure how the play was overturned by the review team. There was no conclusive evidence. Bogus.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
He is not above reproach. The context of this discussion is last night's game, which is considered by too many evidence that Beni is costing us wins and materially aided the enemy in the 2d inning. I have explained why that is simply not true, and no one, including you has presented any compelling evidence tgo the contrary.
On the bonehead plays costing us a 10-15 game lead, fine. Go with the minimum of the 10 game lead, which means 6 more wins than the current 76. 82 wins gives us the second best record in MLB. You claim you can prove boneheaded plays cost 6 wins and I am equally confident you can't demonstrate it by analyzing any of the 56 losses to date. 82 wins, in case you haven't noticed, would give the Sox the second best record in MLB and the best in the AL, and there is no way, no how with our weak hitting you can assert that.
We simply differ in our definitions of fundamentals. Mine are hitting and pitching, and yours are playing smart.
I think everything matters in baseball, and there are a lot of things that can contribute to an individual game's outcome.
I think it's fair to say that this team has made an unusually high number of bonehead plays this year and they've cost us some runs. There's no way to measure how many games they've cost, but saying it's 5 or 10 is totally unsupportable. Saying it's cost a couple would be much more reasonable.