Mar 20, 2026, 06:00 PM ET<\/p>\n
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hitting woes have cost Dylan Crews<\/a> a spot on the Washington Nationals<\/a>‘ Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n Crews, the No. 2 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 Even with Crews’ combined .211 batting average through his first two seasons, the demotion to the minors was not expected.<\/p>\n Washington is likely to open the season with James Wood<\/a>, Jacob Young<\/a>, Joey Wiemer<\/a> and Daylen Lile<\/a> as its top four outfielders.<\/p>\n “One thing that we made sure Dylan was aware of is, we absolutely believe in Dylan,” manager Blake Butera was quoted as saying by MLB.com. “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.”<\/p>\n Butera said Crews, 24, handled the news “like a pro. He was awesome, awesome.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 20, 2026, 06:00 PM ET WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hitting woes have cost Dylan Crews a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-536598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}