Success is hard. If it was easy, well, we wouldn’t applaud it so much. But success is any field can be quite difficult. It takes talent, but also a fair amount of good luck. Many things can derail us from success, whether they be personal problems, health problems, or own immaturity or inabilities.
Baseball can be perhaps harsher than many other fields because your success or failure can be summed up on the back of a baseball card. That doesn’t tell the whole story of course. The Twitter account at a fellow SB Nation site, Fake Teams, asked an interesting question - who do you wish had enjoyed more success than he did?