Noticed that the Royals had this guy on the trade block, so a deal was done:
Kim has averaged 3.7 WAR over the past two seasons, his first full years in MLB since coming over from South Korea. He was .291-32-85 in 2027 and .276-22-72 last year and is an above-average defensive LF (60-rated). He'll take over in LF and
Andrew Greckel will take over DH, which was Scavone's role. It also gives us another LH bat in the lineup as not counting the switch-hitting
Wander Franco, Greckel was the only one. Scavone came to us late in 2027 with lots of promise, but sporadically delivered on that promise in a .227-26-60 season good for 1.1 WAR and was off to a dreadful 6 for 45 start this year with 0 HR. Sounds too good to be true? Well, Scavone is under team control for one more year than Kim and will not be eligible for arbitration until 2031 while Kim is eligible next year and projected for $4.4M. Also Scavone is 5 years younger and probably better offensively than he's showed with us. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to upgrade our team D (Greckel is a slightly below-average LF) and put a more consistent and proven bat into the lineup.
Also for what it's worth the fan reaction was "amazing" to Kim's acquisition.