{"id":553696,"date":"2026-03-20T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553696\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:21:07","slug":"nationals-option-top-prospect-dylan-crews-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553696\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals option top prospect Dylan Crews to Triple A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. &#8212; Hitting woes have cost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719511\/dylan-crews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Crews<\/a> a spot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a>&#8216; Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p>Crews, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 amateur draft, was optioned to Triple-A Rochester on Friday. Crews hit .103 (3 for 29) in spring training after batting .208 for Washington in 2025 and .218 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Crews&#8217; combined .211 batting average through his first two seasons, the demotion to the minors was not expected.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is likely to open the season with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4918256\/james-wood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Wood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4414210\/jacob-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Young<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4417134\/joey-wiemer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Wiemer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917889\/daylen-lile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daylen Lile<\/a> as its top four outfielders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that we made sure Dylan was aware of is, we absolutely believe in Dylan,&#8221; manager Blake Butera was quoted as saying by MLB.com. &#8220;Our thoughts on Dylan as a person, as a player, have only changed in a positive direction. We just think the best thing for Dylan and the organization right now is at least for him to start in Triple-A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Butera said Crews, 24, handled the news &#8220;like a pro. He was awesome, awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. &#8212; Hitting woes have cost Dylan Crews a spot on the Washington Nationals&#8216; Opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-553696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}