Prince Fielder is NAKED!

To start: every year ESPN the magazine has a body issue. They take super-arty (technical term) pics of athletes in a variety of sports. This year all the chatter is about Prince Fielder. Used to love him when he played for the Tigers, but he wasn't my favorite because I thought he had an attitude. Which is why I don't like one of his pictures, because he looks like a snob. But this picture:

dem legs.

I like this picture. This picture is blowing up the internet. There's a lot of hate going around about it because uuuuuugggggggh, he's sooooooo faaaaaaaaat.
Barf.
Whatever.

I have some things to say.

1. Before he was injured, he was paid to do one thing: hit baseballs a really long way. His body has been trained to do exactly that. Yes, he also played first base, but of all the positions in baseball, first is one of the least physically demanding. The dude hits baseballs.
2. He is paid, despite injury, $24 million a year to hit baseballs. Until 2020.
3. 1 in 6 players drafted make it to the majors. (Source) 17.2% of those good enough to even make it to the draft.
4. 1% of high school ball players will make it to the majors. (Source)

Whether or not you think Prince Fielder is hot, he's been hired to do a job that is almost entirely manual labor. Yes, he has to think about which pitches to hit and all that, so I didn't say it's entirely manual labor, but almost. You could be smart as hell and still not able to hit a home run. You gotta have the body to back it up. Anyway, Fielder hits baseballs, and until an injury that could happen to anyone, he did a fanfuckingtastic job of it. So go ahead and give him shit for how he looks, but I'm pretty sure he gives exactly zero fucks about what you think.