While the annual rollout of top-100 prospect lists is not a hot take competition, it can sometimes feel that way. As Exhibit A, we submit ESPN's treatment of Seattle Mariners right fielder Lazaro Montes.
When Kiley McDaniel published his top 100 prospects on Tuesday, Montes was not one of the five Mariners who made the cut. Thus did McDaniel zig where other publications zagged, as MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and The Athletic all rate the 21-year-old as one of the league's 100 best prospects.