Professional athletes have it pretty great, what with the whole getting paid a ton of money to do something they love and that has to be fun about 99% of the time. One notable downside is that they’re in one of the few, and perhaps only, lines of work where if you don’t figure it out by time you’re about 25 years old, you’re written off completely. The rest of us typically get a few shots to put things together through our 20s and into our 30s and 40s. Professional athletes don’t have that luxury.
Thankfully, Jorge Soler got a second chance from his second team.