Mariners prospect Montes showcases power with 3-HR game

Slugging Seattle Mariners prospect Lazaro Montes has been putting on quite the show this week with Double-A Arkansas.

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After hitting only one home run through his first 20 games of the season, Montes has mashed six homers in the Travelers’ six-game series against the Wichita Wind Surge, which concludes with the series finale Sunday.

Three of those homers came during an impressive display of power on Saturday.

The 21-year-old outfielder got his big day started in his second at-bat, clobbering a three-run home run to right field. He stepped up to the plate with two runners on again in the fifth and deposited his second three-run homer of the day just inside the foul pole in right field. And in his final at-bat in the ninth, Montes yanked a pitch on the outside part of the plate over the fence in right field for a two-run shot.

He finished the game with eight RBIs, setting a new career high and nearly matching the nine RBIs he had in 24 previous games this season.

Montes kept it going Sunday, adding a two-run homer in his first plate appearance in the first inning for his sixth in six games. It gave Montes four homers in his last seven plate appearances.

With his performance in the first five games of the series, Montes raised his OPS from .686 to .900. He entered Sunday slashing .235/.359/.541 on the season.

Montes, ranked as the Mariners’ No. 4 prospect and No. 37 in all of baseball by MLB Pipeline, is widely regarded as having one of the best power tools of any prospect in baseball.

During his age-20 season in 2025, Montes tied for third in the minor leagues with 32 home runs across all levels. He hit 18 during a 67-game stint with High-A Everett and 14 in 64 games after making the jump to Double-A Arkansas.

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