[quote=@Crimson Paladin]
Because Baby Yoda is a member of a mysterious species whom we know very little about, except every example previously seen was a Jedi Master, meaning that it's seems more plausible to believe that manipulating the Force is instinctual to them.  Additionally, he's fifty years old and we know nothing of his past.  Rey is a human, and the previous human force sensitive protagonists we've seen actually needed to be guided and trained in the Force to be able to use most of their powers.

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Except the only thing we know about Yoda and I guess Yaddle is that they have spent [i]centuries[/i] training in the Force. After centuries of training I'd expect anyone to be good at it; it's not like the assumption is "members of this race are naturally good at the Force" (or at least it [i]wasn't[/i]) but rather "members of this race are long lived and thus can spend a long time mastering the Force." We didn't see Yoda as a padawan but it's not like he showed up to the Jedi and was like "Good I am in the Force. A Master you must make me." 

Rey is a human, yes, but she - like the other protagonists - was chosen by the Force to be the foil to the rising dark side - in this case Kylo Ren. The Force in balance doesn't mean 'the light side defeats the dark side' like the Jedi in the prequels thought, there needs to be light and dark otherwise the Force will do its best to fin the yin to the yang and vice versa. With Luke cutting his connection to the Force, Rey was chosen. "There's been an awakening, have you felt it?" Rey is the perfect foil to Kylo Ren because Kylo Ren is so desperate to be something he isn't based solely on the fact that he's [i]somebody[/i]. He's a Skywalker. He's a Solo. His grandfather is Darth Vader and his uncle is Luke Skywalker. Being powerful is his birthright. He believes Anakin's saber is rightfully his just because of his blood, so when this literal actual nobody is who the saber responds to, he's furious because she is, unknowingly, showing him his own failures. 

It's pretty established that Force Sensitives unconsciously use the Force to help them out. Anakin was using it to podrace, Ezra was using it in his con artist days. Rey was guided by the Force by Anakin's lightsaber, given a lecture on how to feel the Force by Maz Kanata, told by Han Solo that all the stories about the Jedi and Luke were true, and was able to call out Kylo Ren when he linked their minds, and only then did she use the mind trick which didn't work right away. 

If we, as an audience, can buy Luke being able to fly an X-Wing despite barely any comparable flight training, using the Force to guide the torpedoes after a very brief 'training' session, and being able to call his lightsaber to free himself from the wampa without question then I don't think it's too much to ask that someone we are told multiple times in the movie as being strong in the Force (because the Force needed her for balance) being able to use a Jedi Mind Trick on James Bondtrooper. 

I'd much more easily believe that a character we're told and shown to be strong in the Force can pull off a mind trick than I can that a baby in a long lived species can just instinctively use the Force to levitate living creatures and heal a man on the verge of death just because the most famous member of his species was a Jedi for 800 years.