For somebody who is 30 years old and under team control for only two more years, Jose Abreu has remained curiously absent from most rumor mill activity.
He’ll pop up in discussions about players the White Sox could move, but there hasn’t been any documented interest from either side, whether it’s the White Sox fielding offers or receiving them.
I’ve had a sense that he’s off limits because of Yoan Moncada, which has sounded a little silly to write and talk about at a distant without direct confirmation. It’s not terribly different from using Abreu’s presence to hang Yasiel Puig trade rumors, and that was like forcing a college friendship with somebody you didn’t talk to in high school because you don’t know anybody else there.