Simply put, because better, older hitters were available (Detz/Porter/Norris/Frost). Now he's a year older, and over that atrocious freshman season he had where we were forced to play him because we had no one else. Plus, I thought he was always pretty good with the glove, even then. Our infield defense is most definitely going to upgrade next season.

Remember, he was as big of a recruit as really anyone we've had in those classes. We need to keep that in mind when we anoint incoming freshmen as starters based on HS hype/stats.