As a player, it must be difficult to come to terms with your career advancing due to someone else’s misfortune. That’s the reality of professional sports, though. And if you have a conscience about how you’ve risen to the cream of the crop, you probably won’t stay there long.
It happens countless times in every sport throughout the course of a season. It’s happened elsewhere on the Miami Marlins just this season. When Adeiny Hechavarria went on the disabled list, JT Riddle swooped in and stole his job. Hechavarria was traded as soon as possible.