If you haven’t been paying close attention to the Royals lately - and who could blame you - you might not have noticed that Carlos Santana has been magma hot in the month of June and raised his season wRC+ all the way up to 98. Still below average, but for a hot minute he had it above average before enduring another oh-fer game. His batting average is now over the Mendoza line and both FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference now show him as having a positive WAR for the season (0.2 and 0.6 respectively.)
To my knowledge, no one in Royals’ management has made any public remarks about Santana’s rebound, yet, but based on their positions in the past and more recently, we can expect them to trumpet the fact that they stuck with him and he has rebounded as a success for their process and their faith in their players.