The Catbird Speaks

Poor sound quality sets the tone for James, Ethan, and Matt to wonder just what the White Sox plan is to keep Avisail Garcia from being the everyday right fielder in 2016.

Nick, Ethan and James gathered together to try to piece together what on Earth is happening, or is not happening in the markets for Justin Upton and Yoenis Cespedes. There are no tangible answers, so things get existential quickly.

Matt, James and Ethan got together to discuss what’s likely to be a disappointing offseason to be pre-disappointed about the state of the White Sox

Topics include:–Wow, Frank Thomas was really good–The 2015 free agent class is a rare opportunity the Sox might miss–How much could the Sox do to improve the offense through trading their pitchers?–What are the hopes for returning players?–Reinsdorf bitterness–Much more!

Interrupting an otherwise blissful Saturday, James Fegan, Ethan Spadling, Collin Whitchurch and briefly Nick Schaefer gathered hopefully at the beginning of an active White Sox offseason to discuss well…

–The White Sox offseason, obviously–Will it be active?–What did Rick Hahn say…about the offseason–Can the White Sox be conservative and blame their lack of revenue with a straight face? (James has an opinion on this)–The Sox should hire Rick Renteria to be their bench coach–Various free agency speculation

Catbird Seat dudes Matt Adams, Nick Schaefer, Ethan Spalding and James Fegan gathered on the eve of the World Series and 10th anniversary of the White Sox winning the 2005 World Series. On this occasion, the topics included:

–Why we are too bitter to be too excited about this anniversary–Where we were during the 2005 playoffs–How the White Sox loyalty to ‘05 players and legacy dulls the novelty of looking back now–Do we have any outlook on the World Series save for Royals-hatred?–Offseason pining for Jason Heyward and Justin Upton–Reports that the White Sox are looking for third base help

Matt, Ethan and James got together to commiserate after a long and awful 2015 White Sox season. In a wide-ranging mope session, the guys:

–Addressed the free agent disappointments of 2015–Lamented just how awful the offense was–Wondered how much appetite for offseason spending there will still be after this mess–Reviewed the half-measure of the Mark Parent firing–Weeped over Buehrle–Discussed Hawk Harrelson’s departure–Celebrated when Ethan’s chicken wing delivery arrived.

For the third time this season, Baseball Prospectus’ Mau Rubio joined Ethan Spalding and James under the guise of evaluating young players in the White Sox organization, only to have things spiral into complete madness. 

In this episode:–James aggressively slanders Mau’s soccer allegiances–The trio bemoans the failures of the 2015 White Sox, both the multiple holes in the lineup and Jeff Samardzija’s lost stuff.–Look long and hard about the future role of Trayce Thompson–Look longer and harder at Avisail Garcia–Peruse offseason options that the Sox won’t pay for, and some they might!–Slobber over Carlos Rodon a bit–Give minimal thought to Erik Johnson–React in horror real time to the Stephen Piscotty injury–Are haunted by the ghosts of White Sox past

The season’s almost over and the White Sox are wasting away their final days, so Nick and James got together to discuss, well, mostly the offseason and how to fix this swiss cheese roster, but also what major things there are still to watch.
–Wha’s going to happen if Trayce keeps outplaying Avisail?
–Jeff Samardzija and the QO; is there any chance he would possibly accept? Would it be the end of the world?
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It’s the dog days of September, and the White Sox are in the middle of their regularly-scheduled playing out the string, which means:

-Only so much Samardzija left!-Carlos Rodon and Erik Johnson could be the future of the new Sox rotation that is waiting for an offense to back it up.-How will the Sox upgrade at third, second, right field, DH, etc? Beyond Mike Olt, that is? Is Adam LaRoche ever hitting again?-Does Avisail have a future in the Sox core?Join James Fegan, Matt Adams and Ethan Spalding as they update the state of the White Sox

Nick and Matt chat about the weekend’s series in Seattle, as well as things that they’d like to see moving through the rest of the 2015 season.