Lázaro Montes

Lázaro Montes was born on October 22, 2004, in Havana, Cuba. He is an outfielder and designated hitter for the Seattle Mariners in Major League Baseball (MLB), where he debuted on September 2, 2026, at Fenway Park in Boston.

He signed as an international free agent with the Mariners on January 15, 2022, receiving a $2.5 million signing bonus. He began his professional career in the Dominican Summer League and climbed through Seattle's farm system — the Arizona Complex League, Modesto Nuts, Everett AquaSox and Double-A Arkansas, where he was named the Northwest League's Most Valuable Player in 2025.

Regarded as one of the most powerful hitting prospects in the Mariners organization, Montes was ranked the club's No. 5 prospect and MLB's No. 56 overall. In his first full 2026 season he hit 38 home runs in the minor leagues, the second-highest total in all of Minor League Baseball that year.