What to expect from Nats No. 3 prospect Brady House in The Show
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At a time when the Nationals lineup could certainly use some help, they are making a House call.
Washington is promoting No. 91 overall prospect Brady House, MLB.com's Jessica Camerato reported Sunday night. Riding an eight-game losing streak, the Nats are set to begin a four-game series at home against the Rockies on Monday.
Ranked as the third-best prospect in the organization, House hit .304/.353/.519 with 13 homers over 65 games for Triple-A Rochester before the biggest transaction of his career. He went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk Sunday to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, the second-longest active streak at the top level of the Minors. House slashed .375/.420/.625 with four homers and four doubles over that stretch.
Listed at 6-foot-4, the 2021 11th overall pick certainly packs a punch from the right side of the plate. He leads players aged 22 or younger at Triple-A with his 13 homers on the season and ranks second in slugging percentage. His 108.8 mph 90th-percentile exit velocity puts him in the range of Willson Contreras (109.0) and Corey Seager (108.7) in the Majors in 2025; only James Wood (111.8) has a higher mark among Nationals Major Leaguers. It’s all-fields pop too with six of his homers going to left/left-center, three to center and four to right/right-center.
Washington could certainly use some right-handed power.
Nationals righty hitters are tied with the Guardians for fewest homers as a group with 15. Nine Major League right-handed batters have 15 or more homers individually. They also rank 28th in batting average (.222) and slugging percentage (.332) and 29th with a .625 OPS. House’s arrival could at least provide some balance to a lineup that has been carried heavily by lefties Wood and CJ Abrams to this point in the season.
That’s if he can get to that prodigious raw power quickly.
House dropped out of the MLB Pipeline Top 100 in the offseason because of a lack of plate discipline in his first taste of Triple-A. He chased on 43 percent of the pitches he saw outside the zone in 54 games with Rochester last year, leading to a .280 on-base percentage. That chase rate has been a more manageable 38 percent in 2025, per Synergy, but even that would be the eighth-highest chase rate in the Majors without adjusting for the better pitching at the top level.
When it comes to swing-and-miss, House has struggled most against sliders (42 percent whiff rate) and changeups (40 percent), and because of the latter, he has closer to even splits against righties and lefties rather than dominating southpaws. But as his power numbers indicate, House is still capable of hitting the ball so hard with his A swing that he can run a reasonably high BABIP to offset some of the strikeout issues that come with his overall approach, and that fueled his rise back into the Top 100.
Defensively, the Georgia native was drafted as a shortstop but slid over full time to third base in 2023. His size and plus arm strength make him a natural fit, and he still retains some of that shortstop athleticism at the hot corner. He could be an instant improvement there over Amed Rosario (-5 Outs Above Average at third base) and José Tena (-4 OAA), and that’s before getting the bat involved.
With House’s stock ascending and the Major League team in free fall, a debut for the recently turned 22-year-old comes at a good time for both parties. Now it’s on House to show he can slug his way into a long-term home in D.C.