Correct me if I'm wrong but your question boils down to "what am I going to do next year if my kid is scuffling or riding pine during his freshman year in college?"
Look, like most of us, I have made a zillion friends both online and IRL who have kids playing college ball. Many if not most of those kids have been on the bench freshman year. Of those, some became later contributors and some got little or no PT over 4 years. You never know until you get there. Many other kids have had good to excellent college careers starting freshman y ear. I've seen a few quit at the top of their game. I've seen many quit at the bottom.
You can't control any of that. Even your kid has only limited control. At the end of the day there are only two things I would worry about:
1 - whatever his role, is the kid enjoying being a member of the baseball team?
2 - is he going to class and doing at least the minimum work required to graduate and start his career?
If the answer to both is yes, you as a parent have nothing to worry about (assuming he's not a draftable prospect).
As Fenway says, just IMO.