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Seems Merkin hints at the possibility of Flowers starting at catcher next year....

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 04:55 PM) Kurt Suzuki? Really? I had the same response when I read that

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 4, 2013 -> 03:50 PM) Since the catch-all was brutally executed, I guess I will post this in here. Salty was NOT offered a qualifying offer. Yep just seals the deal for me on him and Granderson(received a QO). Salty makes plenty of sense and now you dont have to give up a draft pick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 09:18 PM) He is 26, not 16. I know...but there is always someone commenting on that.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 09:17 PM) People replying to my tweet seem to think this Evan Grant fellow doesn't really have a source, or his source sucks so I guess take that FWIW. He does have a separate source and a reliable one. Got that Rios trade almost right before everyone else.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:43 PM) CAN SOMETHING JUST HAPPEN PLEASE Dont expect anything to happen tonight

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:38 PM) Or it could be like what happened with Dye when he signed with the Sox. I think it was the Rangers then as well who made an offer higher than the Sox after he basically agreed to the Sox offer. He did the honorable thing and stuck to his word. Maybe this is similar. Right and thats possible. What it seems like the bidding did was everyone put their bids in a pool. The top guys then start to bid against each other.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) http://www.lonestarball.com/2013/10/17/485...gers-jose-abreu I would like to add...the guy's tweet I posted was one of the first to get the Rios trade...pretty reliable which is why I follow him.

Honestly what it sounds like is someone is trying to stir something up just for the heck of it

@Evan_P_Grant: As interested as #Rangers are in Abreu, I'm hearing White Sox are still expected to get him at $68 million. https://twitter.com/Evan_P_Grant Rangers beat writer

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:32 PM) Has something been announced? Nope....probably still a bunch of details to go through before anything happens.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:29 PM) FWIW, Abreu and Leonys Martin of the Rangers have the same agent Nice find....hopefully everything works out like Ken was saying and we dont have to worry

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:22 PM) So much for the sealed bid thing? It started off as a blind bid...everything after that I have no idea

If Gammons,Rosenthal,Heyman and company whiffed on this I'm going to be pissed

http://trsullivan.mlblogs.com/2013/10/17/r...ot-after-abreu/ Uh what?

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 08:10 PM) Marlins beat writer says it's Texas. He said dont rule them out.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 07:49 PM) Nice work Ricky, hope you scouted right and we just signed a multi year all star. Gotta like how wishy washy Kenny was when asked about him....then here comes this news. Classic Kenny.

I cant wait to see the Facebook reactions from people who will come out and say its a disgrace he was signed because he needs an education ect. Kinda like what happened with Michael Zapata.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 07:35 PM) At mlb.com, it currently has the Astros, White Sox and Red Sox as the 3 favorites... Obviously Boston's not going to announce it during the post-season with Napoli directly affected by that decision. That was earlier today...if Boston bid just above 40 million then they for sure didnt get him

Ken Rosenthal confirmed it

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) I'd have to imagine that Abreu's agent now will give teams time to up their bids. I am sure it is his camp stating White Sox at $70 million. Teams know what they have to bid over to get into the game. I'm not 100 percent on this...but I think once you put your bids in then thats it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 06:11 PM) I doubt they'd announce this before the Series ends. Yep....many speculated a few pages earlier that this would be the case.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 17, 2013 -> 06:04 PM) Now I wonder when we can expect a deal. Hope it's the Sox Someone on twitter said a decision in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

I'm getting excited but trying to suppress that for now....just waiting until its done.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 03:29 PM) Man that is a lot of money for such an unproven one-way player. But a Abreu-Garcia-Viciedo middle of the order could be dynamic if they meet their potential. Kenny was at the workout so he really must have liked what he saw.