Your version of the history makes it seem like he went to a 4 year college though, especially with the "necessity". He was a High School starter who didn't get draft interest, despite being undeclared. He joined FIU late so he only got in 30 innings as a reliever. They weren't going to use him as a starter so he moved on to a Junior College where he pitched and got drafted in his second year of college. He threw 101 innings between College and Minors in 2017. Then had the injury in 2018.
If they don't lift the (approx) 50 pitch limit by June, then I'll say you could be right. But overall he's on the same development path of another college guy that didn't pitch a lot of innings...Marcus Stroman.