Lazaro Montes

The Seam

Up to the Door — Lazaro Montes hit 38 home runs in the minor leagues this year, more than all but one hitter in them, and homered again in his first major-league game. Feverbaseball's engine measured his contact across 112 balls in play at Triple-A Tacoma. It has measured none of what he has done since. September 22, 2026

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Scout’s note

Montes arrived from Havana and reached the majors at 21, debuting September 1st. The left-handed bat is the draw: his EV95 of 109.935 puts him 97th-percentile among the 504 AAA bats we track, grading 0.49 on the MLB value grid — elite raw contact for any age, remarkable for this one. His 21-game MLB cup (.212, four home runs) and a rough last two weeks at the MLB level (.167 over eight games) show the adjustment still grinding. The engine doesn't care about the sample; it cares about the 112 balls he drove.

Note written Oct 2 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Montes's EV95 of 109.9 sits in the 97th percentile of the 504 AAA bats we track (median 104.9), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.49. Contact is what this board ranks and all it ranks — no name is held off it.

EV95 (mph)

109.935

xVal (MLB grid)

0.4901

Balls in play

112

Age

21

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of September 11, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.11Mest

Tax hit

$0.11M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Seattle Mariners.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

The Wire

△ On the field: Lázaro Montes and Yordan Álvarez meet on an MLB field; scouts have long compared their lefty power profiles.

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The Bureau on Lazaro Montes

The scouting press, in their own words