I don't get Francona's managing!

Watching the end of the game today it hit me again.   I don't get how our manager manages.  

• Pinch running Freeman for Bell so that he later has to pinch hit Arias.
• Pinch running Straw for Freeman.  Then failing to pinch hit Bell for Straw with the game on the line.
• Not controlling his players, allowing them the latitude so that they think it is OK to swing and miss the way Ramirez and Naylor did in the 10th.   Your manager causes your players to be disciplined players...or not.  
• Not understanding that it is your offense that is killing you, not your defense and failing to make that assessment in most of the years he has managed here (Clement, Chang, Miller, Arias, Zimmer, Mercado., the list goes on)
• Overusing his veteran pitchers trying to win games and doing so many other things that hurt that effort.

Hey, the guy is the best manager in Cleveland history and, as Antonnetti is doing, Francona should be given the keys to the kingdom and he should manage, no matter what, until he (Francona) feels like he doesn't want to manage any longer.  

I get all that and I still see us, with our current players, having a chance to win our division and maybe, like last year, steal the first round of the playoffs.  

I honestly think we can win in spite of all of our issues, including Francona's managing.  

But it would be sooooo much easier to accomplish that if we just didn't put our players in a situation where they will fail and create an atmosphere that is so desparate that our two best hitters feel they have to go out of the strikezone on 5 of the 6 strikes in the 10th with the tieing run on second because they thought they had to do it all themselves...and not being disciplined enough to just keep the line moving.  

We can wn with all the problems on this team...it would just be nice if it could be easier...and it can be.  But it starts with the manager.