He is a redshirt freshman. He had an arm injury last season. After he signed with LSU,most thought he would never wear a LSU uniform b/c he was expected to go early in the draft. Then the arm injury occured and his draft status dropped , so he decided to go ahead and come to LSU.
Don't be surprised if he is the ace of the staff by year end. He has really looked good other than last weekend when he came out of the bullpen. I like the righty-lefty-righty rotation that Smoke uses on Fri-Sat-Sun.