The Seattle Mariners farm system has played a major role for the team over the last several years.

Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Julio Rodriguez, Bryan Woo, Cal Raleigh and Bryce Miller are all homegrown staples at the major league level, but the roster has also seen contributions from from several other prospects as well.

The Mariners have seven top 100 prospects (per MLB Pipeline) and it wouldn't be out of the question for the team to see more players in the top 100 contribute to the major league squad, possibly as soon as this year.

One of Seattle's top 100 prospects, Lazaro Montes, is off to an incredible start in the month of June and is making a case for a promotion to Triple-A and coming one step closer to the major leagues as a result.

Entering Thursday, Montes (No. 27 MLB Pipeline Top 100; No. 4 M's prospect per MLB Pipeline) has played eight games in June. He's slashed .394/.487/1.000 and has hit two doubles and six home runs with eight RBIs with the Double-A Arkansas Travelers. His season batting average has risen from .217 to .240 through his torrid stretch.

Montes has been regarded as the best power-hitter of the Mariners' top 100 prospects since being signed as an international free agent out of Cuba on Jan. 15, 2022.

The 21-year-old outfielder has hit 94 home runs in 429 games from 2022-present.

Montes has been one of Seattle's most notable prospects for several seasons and was a non-roster invite to spring training this year, where he slashed .160/.192/.240 in 11 Cactus League games.

This year is Montes' first full season at Double-A. He was promoted from the High-A Everett AquaSox to Arkansas on June 24, 2025. At the time of his promotion, Montes had a slash line of .268/.387/.572 in 67 games with Everett with 18 home runs and 50 RBIs.

Montes' hitting and on-base numbers aren't quite where they were with the AquaSox at the time of his promotion last season, but, the Travelers' home ballpark, Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock, Ark., is considered the hardest hitting environment in the Mariners organization.

Across the whole year, Montes has slashed .240/.351/.553 with a .904 OPS and has hit nine doubles, a triple and 18 homers with 48 RBIs in 57 games. He has a strikeout rate of 27.7 percent and a walk rate of 12.6 percent.

His strikeout rate is above the major league average (21 percent) but so is his walk rate (9.9 percent). Those numbers are better than his '25 numbers with Arkansas, where he had a strikeout rate of 30.5 percent and a walk rate of 12.4 percent.

If he's able to maintain or even surpass his current race, he could find himself promoted to the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers at a similar time.

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