This is not my prediction House will be in the majors in 2024, it's the Nats. Maybe they'll change it, but they haven't at this point. If he's ready in 2024 or 2025 and is the top player they project him to be he's going to need a position to play. Moving a player around the infield is done all the time when you're trying to get as many of your young players on the field as possible that you think will be a part of your future.
Then they, not you, are insane.
They have a long history of bringing up guys before they are ready. They also have a long history of many of those guys struggling and falling well short in the long term. Robles and Kieboom are the two most prominent ones, but it's hard to say what effect being up too soon had on Garcia, too early to say what effect it had on Adon, impossible to say if it would have ruined Giolito if he hadn't been traded. Soto was Soto.
The dude has what seems to be a serious back injury and put up good, not great numbers in low-A.
This isn't directed at you - you seem to have a decent perspective - but I think a lot of people need to get their heads around where the Nats system is compared to actual good minor league systems and top-end talent and production and what that means in terms of promotion potential. For a guy in House's position, a great 2023 would consist of staying healthy, playing decent SS, and OPSing .850 or so mostly in high-A, with - if everything breaks right - a cup of coffee in AA to end the year. The next year would be split between AA and a bit of AAA, again if all goes pretty well. There would be no thought to him being in Washington prior to late 2025, at which point he would still only be 22. Hitting well is hard. Playing infield well is hard. Doing both in the majors at 22 is damn near impossible.
There is only one Juan Soto. There are many more Carter Kiebooms, Nick Senzels, and Lastings Milledges. Rushing guys through the minors is more often than not a really, really bad idea.
