Yeah that's why I mentioned it, kid will be interesting to follow. As for the rest, my opinion is quite simple, if they're going to showcase him at anytime here in '18 then he should be called up now, other wise keep him in AA until their AS game, move him to Buffalo following that and start his MLB career in the 2nd week of '19.
Also, folk are talking like we're done for the year, lots of baseball left. They need to get healthy and some quality starting pitching and they could crawl back into it.
No the Nats called Soto up because he was their next best option, Eaton/Kendrick and Goodwin are all injured. Actually... they're decimated with injuries.