We’ve been rotating those outfielders in left, center, and right, so they’re all getting their share of work in all the outfield positions. He looks great,” Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Sports Junkies in an early September interview. ☑️ Stolen base /jJMOKVGqRK- Minor League Baseball August 23, 2023Ĭrews went 15 for 72 (.208/.318/.278) with five doubles for Harrisburg to finish out the year. #Nats' Dylan Crews racked up the Double-A firsts in his debut: Getting his at-bats at that level it’s something that - batting average and that type of thing is cool to look at, but I look at more how he’s adjusting to the league and that type of thing.” “He’s swinging the bat very well, he’s seeing the ball good, he’s playing both side of the ball great,” Rizzo said once Crews had some time with the Senators at Double-A, “and like I said when we brought him to Double-A, it didn’t matter to me what his statistics looked like, as long as he showed that he’s making strides.

355/.423/.645 line over 14 games and 71 plate appearances, before he earned a promotion to Double-A Harrisburg). “When Dylan is locked in, he’s very skilled at driving the ball to right-center and working the middle of the diamond, and I think as he progresses in the minor leagues and at the major league level, you’re going to see him start to pull the ball more, and I think that’s where the power will start to come into play.”Ĭrews hit 18 of the 58 home runs he hit in college this season, and added five more when he was with Fredericksburg ( going 22 for 62 at the plate, for a. “He’s really an advanced hitter,” Special Assistant to the GM Kris Kline said. We have an abundance of high-type prospect outfielders, but he was a guy we just couldn’t pass on when the draft came around.” You can’t have enough of those type of players. He can steal a base, and he’s a two-way player. He can hit at the top of the lineup, he could be a middle of the lineup run-producer. Offering a quick scouting report, Rizzo said Crews was a potential “impact-type” of player. He’s played a long, strenuous, stressful season already, and we’re not going to force-feed him very hard this year, but he’s a player that we think, again, is going to be a big part of this group in the near future.” I think that he’s a guy that we’ll assess when he gets to camp. “ an accomplished college players that played at the highest level you can play in the collegiate ranks. “There’s never a blueprint for when a player gets to the big leagues, they make sure that we know that they’re big league-ready,” he explained. BWKFRvbXY3- Grant Paulsen August 13, 2023 GM Mike Rizzo, on the night of the 2023 Draft, said Crews’s play would determine how fast he moved through the system, and they would let him develop at his own pace.ĭylan Crews was 5-for-5 with 2 HRs today. “I’m going to do what I can to try my best and perform to the highest I can perform, and that decision is up to the Nats, and however fast I get up, that’s up to them, but I’m going to play my game at the end of the day.” “I’m just going to play my game at the end of the day,” he said.

“We kind of skip that getting to know each other part, and we get right to going and right to moving and getting to work with all these guys.”Ĭrews didn’t bite when a reporter asked in his introductory press conference how quickly he expected to make it up to the majors. His personal relationship with some of those players makes the process easier. “It’s a good head start for us, really, you know,” Crews said of getting to know some of his teammates in the organization, and getting reacquainted with those he already knew. “I know a lot of the guys, I’m familiar with a lot of the guys,” Crews said before he went first to West Palm Beach, FL ( playing one game in the Florida Complex League) and then out to play first for Single-A Fredericksburg and eventually for Double-A Harrisburg where he played alongside other top prospects like Brady House, Robert Hassell III, and James Wood (the last two, of course, outfielders as well). Dylan Crews with an absolute moonshot homer to right-center, it's 11-2!! #WeAreFXBG /jwA8TiZCvU- Fredericksburg Nationals August 20, 2023

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