{"id":679386,"date":"2026-05-19T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679386\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:53:08","slug":"nationals-option-brady-house-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679386\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Option Brady House – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nationals announced they\u2019ve optioned third baseman\u00a0Brady House<\/a> to Triple-A Rochester. That creates an active roster opening, which they\u2019ll reportedly fill tomorrow by recalling<\/a> former #2 overall pick\u00a0Dylan Crews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a surprise demotion, as House has started 38 of Washington\u2019s 48 games this year. He was in the lineup for tonight\u2019s extra-inning loss to the Mets and still hitting third in Blake Butera\u2019s lineup. Despite continuing to hit him in the middle of the order, the Nats now decide to send House down for his first work against Triple-A pitching since he made his MLB debut last June.<\/p>\n

House, the #11 overall pick in the 2022 draft, limped to a .234\/.252\/.322 line over 73 games as a rookie. This year\u2019s numbers are better but still middling. House carries a .227\/.282\/.399 mark across 177 trips to the plate. He\u2019s drawing walks at a modest 7.3% clip against a 28% strikeout rate. He\u2019s in the bottom 15 among hitters (minimum 150 plate appearances) in contact rate.<\/p>\n

The plate discipline remains a work in progress, but House\u2019s seven home runs tied him with\u00a0Daylen Lile<\/a> for third on the team behind\u00a0James Wood<\/a> and\u00a0CJ Abrams<\/a>. He\u2019d connected on three of those homers this month, albeit with a .224 average and .264 on-base percentage entering tonight\u2019s game. House has graded poorly defensively, tying Junior Caminero<\/a> for the lead among third basemen with eight errors. Both Defensive Runs Saved and Outs Above Average have him bottom five at the position.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s infield defense probably won\u2019t improve much with a combination of\u00a0Jorbit Vivas<\/a> and\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Tena<\/a> covering third base.\u00a0Curtis Mead<\/a> has hit well off the bench and could get a look there too, though the Nationals seemingly prefer him as a first baseman. That\u2019ll open some at-bats at designated hitter for Wood and Lile, as Crews will surely be in the lineup on an everyday basis. Jacob Young<\/a> is the team\u2019s best defensive outfielder; he\u2019s day-to-day after taking a fastball to the ribs this evening, though Butera said postgame that x-rays were negative (via Mark Zuckerman of Nats Journal<\/a>).<\/p>\n

House entered this season with 105 days of MLB service. He needs to be on the big league roster for 67 days this year to cross the one-year threshold before the end of the season. He\u2019s a little less than two weeks short of that right now, but there\u2019s ample time for him to play his way back onto the active roster during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nationals announced they\u2019ve optioned third baseman\u00a0Brady House to Triple-A Rochester. That creates an active roster opening, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[229335,49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-679386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-brady-house","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}