BUY NOW: Why I Believe Brady House Is Destined To Breakout For The Washington Nationals

But Brady House's 2026 season was a lot better than I think what we remember.

So for the first six weeks of the season for Brady House, it wasn't like the best go around for him.

And in fact, he was sent down on May 19th And he had a slash of 227, a 282 OBP, a 399 slug with a 681 OPS.

But really more importantly than that, he had a really bad defensive just all-around system.

And it was just bad at times for Brady House.

And it was kind of surprising because we all thought that House would be this stalwart over at third base and someone who I always thought had the potential to be a gold glover over at third base.

But that was just never really the case this season.

But over 162, and again, he didn't play 162.

He was sent down for a couple of weeks and brought back up once the Nationals traded away Curtis Meade.

And that's when we saw a much better and, in my opinion, more real version of Brady House.

I think it's kind of funny because...

Brady House this season was actually just a lot better than what we remembered.

And if you look at the overall numbers, the guy finished the season with a 710 OPS.

At times, it didn't certainly feel like he was starting to hit the baseball.

And in fact, his slugging, while it was up 50 points from this season, was actually even slightly worse than what it was in the first half.

But he put together a much different season in that second half after he was called back up.

And over his final 51 games, here's what stood out to me.

The slugging was still there.

It was consistent from the first half into the second half, but it was the on-base percentage.

In his final 51 games, Brady House had a 343 OBP compared to when he was sent down, he had a 282 on-base percentage.

That is a pretty significant gap.

So what went into that? Well, number one, He started to walk a lot more.

And that was something that I think we saw really just from last season going into this season as well.

In 2025, he had a walk rate of 2.9%.

Simply not good enough.

But Brady House's 2026 season was a lot better than I think what we remember.

So for the first six weeks of the season for Brady House, it wasn't like the best go around for him.

And in fact, he was sent down on May 19th And he had a slash of 227, a 282 OBP, a 399 slug with a 681 OPS.

But really more importantly than that, he had a really bad defensive just all-around system.

And it was just bad at times for Brady House.

And it was kind of surprising because we all thought that House would be this stalwart over at third base and someone who I always thought had the potential to be a gold glover over at third base.

But that was just never really the case this season.

But over 162, and again, he didn't play 162.

He was sent down for a couple of weeks and brought back up once the Nationals traded away Curtis Meade.

And that's when we saw a much better and, in my opinion, more real version of Brady House.

I think it's kind of funny because...

Brady House this season was actually just a lot better than what we remembered.

And if you look at the overall numbers, the guy finished the season with a 710 OPS.

At times, it didn't certainly feel like he was starting to hit the baseball.

And in fact, his slugging, while it was up 50 points from this season, was actually even slightly worse than what it was in the first half.

But he put together a much different season in that second half after he was called back up.

And over his final 51 games, here's what stood out to me.

The slugging was still there.

It was consistent from the first half into the second half, but it was the on-base percentage.

In his final 51 games, Brady House had a 343 OBP compared to when he was sent down, he had a 282 on-base percentage.

That is a pretty significant gap.

So what went into that? Well, number one, He started to walk a lot more.

And that was something that I think we saw really just from last season going into this season as well.

In 2025, he had a walk rate of 2.9%.

Simply not good enough.