This baseball off-season could best be characterized by one phrase:
"Hold your horses!" An example of this is the now lukewarm interest the Red Sox have in star White Sox first-baseman
José Abreu. We
were under the impression that Boston and Chicago were in "active" negotiations on a trade for the slugger—
now the earlier talks are called just "preliminary". They could be stoked up again at the Winter Meetings next week—but don't count on it. So, save the sales receipt on that cool Red Sox Abreu gear.
