Mariners Acquire Carlos Santana From Royals
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SEATTLE — With Ty France (arm) on the 10-day injured list, the Mariners have addressed first base by acquiring Carlos Santana in a trade with the Royals.
Santana, 36, is hitting .216/.349/.341 with four home runs, 21 RBI and more walks (17 percent) than strikeouts (13.2 percent) this season. Those numbers have been boosted by a fantastic month of June in which he's posted a .357/.478/.554 slash line with a wRC+ of 198 in 69 plate appearances.
As part of the deal, Kansas City will also send cash to Seattle to help pay for Santana's remaining salary, which sits somewhere in the $5 million range. He will be a free agent at the end of the year.
The Royals are receiving right-handed reliever Wyatt Mills and right-handed pitching prospect William Fleming in return. Mills carries a 7.59 ERA in 21.1 career innings of relief and has bounced between the Triple-A and major league levels over the past two seasons.
Fleming, meanwhile, was an 11th-round pick out of Wake Forest in last year's draft and was considered by many to be one of the Mariners' 30 best prospects. In 67.2 innings with Low-A Modesto this season, he's averaged 7.85 strikeouts per nine innings pitched with an ERA of 4.92.
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