Nobody has issues with calculated success. Reckless failure is a problem.
When Lawrie tried to steal home, a prime Jose Bautista was at the plate and he "just had a feeling I could get it." There was no thinking behind it and he took the bat out of the hands of the best slugger in the game (at the time) and killed the inning. Stupid risk
Pillar had a limp noodle at the plate and had been studying video on Betances and how slow he was to the plate and took a calculate risk given the likelihood of a sub replacement level bat against a guy with 15 k/9 doing anything other than make himself look stupid. Acceptable risk