PG - those are good points as well.
Here is another story with a hsbbweb connection. We had a member here named Bee> whose son was a fine catcher for Georgia Tech and drafted in the later rounds his junior year.
By all accounts, it appeared he would be the starting catcher the following year - his senior year. Then, Georgia Tech signed an All-American type freshmen catcher/pitcher from the State of South Carolina. The only time the senior catcher got to catch unfortunately was when they brought the freshmen phenom into close a game or when they DH'ed the kid to give his arm a rest. Certainly, not the way they envisioned the young man's collegiate career ending up.
Sometimes, you can have all the planning in the world, have the stars line up, and things still go awry.
Oh btw, the name of that catcher was... Matt Wieters...