jesus montero
With flight reports that Mariners are about to trade Cliff Lee for the Yankees, jump, two questions surface.It would be just a change of uniforms Lee tonight and start against the Mariners, as was already scheduled to play tonight against the Yankees, Phil Hughes at Safeco Field?Jesus Montero, the top prospect in the Yankees' minor-league system, is the big chip being dangled by the Yankees in a potential trade for Cliff Lee.
(Getty Images file photo)And more importantly in the long run for the Mariners, who exactly is Jesus Montero, the 20-year-old prospect expected to come to Seattle in return for Lee?
While there likely will be more than one prospect in a deal -- several reports say second baseman David Adams and right-hander Zach McAllister will be included -- Montero is the legitimate, big-time prospect who would be the key to making any deal happen with the Yankees.For a team crying out for big-time power, it's not hard to understand why the M's would jump at Montero.
He's a big 6-foot-4, 225-pound catcher, though some feel he'll ultimately wind up as a first baseman.For the Mariners, what matters most is the big bat and whether Montero is as good as projected by Baseball America, which rated him the fourth-best prospect in baseball coming into this season behind the impressive threesome of Jason Heyward, Steven Strasburg and Mike Stanton. all making big-league waves already.aMontero isn't there yet.He's currently in Triple-A ball this season and still adjusting to that level, hitting .
With flight reports that Mariners are about to trade Cliff Lee for the Yankees, jump, two questions surface.It would be just a change of uniforms Lee tonight and start against the Mariners, as was already scheduled to play tonight against the Yankees, Phil Hughes at Safeco Field?Jesus Montero, the top prospect in the Yankees' minor-league system, is the big chip being dangled by the Yankees in a potential trade for Cliff Lee.
(Getty Images file photo)And more importantly in the long run for the Mariners, who exactly is Jesus Montero, the 20-year-old prospect expected to come to Seattle in return for Lee?
While there likely will be more than one prospect in a deal -- several reports say second baseman David Adams and right-hander Zach McAllister will be included -- Montero is the legitimate, big-time prospect who would be the key to making any deal happen with the Yankees.For a team crying out for big-time power, it's not hard to understand why the M's would jump at Montero.
He's a big 6-foot-4, 225-pound catcher, though some feel he'll ultimately wind up as a first baseman.For the Mariners, what matters most is the big bat and whether Montero is as good as projected by Baseball America, which rated him the fourth-best prospect in baseball coming into this season behind the impressive threesome of Jason Heyward, Steven Strasburg and Mike Stanton. all making big-league waves already.aMontero isn't there yet.He's currently in Triple-A ball this season and still adjusting to that level, hitting .
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