Oh, please. That wasn't the dumbest play of the season.
It was the dumbest play EVER.
And quite possibly not simply in baseball, but in any high-end professional sports.
Even had there been less than 2 outs, the play would be to just tag the first base bag ASAP and prepare to throw...not chase Baez down.
One of the writer-types who's a regular on MLB Network said flat-out, some of the players on the Pirates needed to be sent down to AAA, as a form of message...if they're that unfocused, they don't belong. It also suggests the Pirates' minor league system is a bust...and suggesting that the minor league shutdown was responsible may be *partially* true but it feels to me to be too much of a cop-out.
I think baseball in particular would've been MUCH better off using the soccer model of promotion and relegation. And, probably, it shows that the fundamentals need far more work than they're given, or perhaps that the failure to execute...how many times do you see, for example, pitchers standing and twiddling their thumbs rather than backing up...isn't criticized harshly enough?