Lázaro Montes


Lázaro Yosmel Montes is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder in the Seattle Mariners organization.
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Career

Montes signed with the Seattle Mariners as an international free agent on 15 January 2022 for $2.5 million. He was viewed as a high-risk, high-reward prospect by evaluators. He was one of three Mariners international prospects who received signing bonuses of more than $1 million in 2022, along with Michael Arroyo and Martín Gonzalez. He made his professional debut that year with the Dominican Summer League Mariners.
Montes started 2023 with the Arizona Complex League Mariners before being promoted in early August to the Modesto Nuts. He hit.303 with 13 home runs in 70 games for the two clubs, but struck out in 25 percent of his plate appearances. Before the 2024 season, Baseball America ranked Montes as the 100th best prospect. He returned to Modesto to start the season and hit well, batting.309 with 13 home runs in 65 games. He was promoted to the Everett Aquasox in June, and his bat cooled off. He hit.260 with 8 home runs in 51 games in Everett. He cut down his strikeout rate to 19 percent of plate appearances in Modesto, but it ballooned to 29 percent in Everett.
Montes was named the 42nd best prospect in baseball by MLB.com before the 2025 season. He participated in his first spring training with the Mariners in 2025, and started the season returning to High-A Everett. In June, Montes was promoted to the Double-A Arkansas Travelers. He won the 2025 Northwest League Most Valuable Player Award.