Your topic and your son's ranking put me down a rabbit hole....I went back to the the PerfectGame state ranking for my son's year. I don't have the sophomore ranking, but the final ranking for his year. Oh my.....
His metrics were similar: ranked 26th in the state and 6th for his position (not catcher).
Some players that were ranked higher than him (remember, they don't mean too much), that were committed to P5 schools, never set foot on those campuses. Some transferred several times. The #1 reclassified UP a year to get him in the draft earlier out of college.
When we were made aware of some of the players committments, I had to ask my son if he wanted to play behind some of those players for 4 years. He wound up charting his own path being an early commit to an instate HA college. He started as a freshman. I think he played all but 2 games in three years. He excelled on and off the field and was drafted as a junior.
P5 doesn't mean a thing if you are sitting the bench. Or off the roster.