We got ourselves a Big Blaster here! Keep that to this, and only this context, please. Don’t walk into a bathroom saying it. Don’t scream it at a urinal. Don’t even say it in any other context, please. I’m trying not to get canceled. This guy really is a Big Blaster though. Can we call him Big Blaster? We can, but Lazaro Montes is kind of a bad-ass name on its own. I love everything about this guy. Well, almost everything, but we’ll get to that. Let’s bask in what it’s like to have a conveyor belt of Dave Kingmans (Kingmen?) who plop into the majors every year. It’s like the Lucille Ball candy episode, but instead of candies, it’s 6′ 5″ power hitters. Adam Dunn, you were a role model for a whole generation. I just chuckled thinking about someone at home, watching Adam Dunn and saying, “That’s what I want to be when I grow up.” Then Dunn swung and missed once, twice, three times, and the child said, “Exactly like that, mommy.” Then the mother said, “You sure you don’t want to make any contact?” And the child, wide-eyed, smiled and said, “No, no contact for me, mommy.” So, what can we expect from Lazaro Montes for 2027 fantasy baseball?
Let’s start with Big Blaster hitting some big blasts:
Lazaro Montes hit one WHERE?!?! https://t.co/uYM8mtlNYD
— MLB (@MLB) September 9, 2026
I simply shook my head when I saw that home run. Lazaro Montes hit the ball to Portland. That ball joined Antifa and now smells of patchouli. That ball works at a dispensary. That ball had a family, which it left in Seattle and changed its name, so its family couldn’t find it. That’s WHERE he hit that ball. Here’s another:
Oh my goodness. Lazaro Montes hits an INSIDE-THE-PARK HR! https://t.co/UPfvGEJ0T9
— Mariners Minors (@MiLBMariners) August 13, 2026
I posted that one on purpose because I can find a lot of Big Blaster hitting big blasts but I wanted you to see the wheels. Are there wheels? I mean, that ball bounces pretty far away, but there’s some wheels here. As a 21-year-old, he stole eight bags last year in the minors to go with his 38 Big Blasts.
I’m slightly worried about giving a guy a cool nickname like Big Blaster, because, as alluded to in the opening (not really alluded to as much as spelled it out), he might hit .175. Seattle is a terrible park, but that’s not even a factor here for Big Blaster. Boy, that park sucks, but Big Blaster could hit it out of anywhere. You saw him. He’s a 45-homer guy if, and the if is the size of the Milky Way, if he can make enough contact. I think he can. He just turned 22 and posted a 30.6 K% in the minors. Listen, it ain’t ideal, but he can get by with a 30 K% in the majors. Shoot, I’d take a 32-ish K%. His 40.7 K% after his callup last year? Well, with that, I don’t know. That seems much harder to maintain.
In Itch’s top 50 prospects for 2027 fantasy baseball, Lazaro was 31st, and at one point Itch said, “Seattle may have erred when the team traded for OF Taylor Ward this summer. He hasn’t had a hit since August 19th and has just six hits (five singles and a triple) in his 16 games with the club, good for a .143 slugging percentage. Granted, Lazaro Montes would probably continue to strike out around 30 percent as a major leaguer, but he’d certainly have that slugging percentage off the interstate, and I’d run over Grey on the interstate.” What? That’s going to be the thing, does he strike out around 30% of the time or around 40%? One is workable, the other is not. At least for 2027. In three years, he could have a 30 K% and hit .230 and 45+ homers, but we’re not talking about in three years. The other good news, and why we’re even here with this post, is he seems in the Mariners’ immediate plans. So, where does that leave us? Prolly has Lazaro Montes, aka Big Blaster, as a 6th outfielder flyer, and someone on-and-off waivers in a 12-teamer. For 2027, I’ll give Lazaro Montes projections of 47/24/55/.204/4 in 402 ABs with a chance for more, and hopefully more in average.
