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This should probly be an article, but I don't have the time to do it justice (still on the road for work) so let's hit this by summary points and maybe Doc can take a run at a real article:
1) The Mariners have CONSISTENTLY tried to keep players at the hardest fielding position they can "handle."  Ackley was a 1B/OF moved to 2B. Nick Franklin was kept at SS throughout his minor-league career and into the bigs.  Brad Miller was drafted as a VERY tweener MIF and was kept at SS, even over Franklin.  Saunders played mostly CF until this year. Jesus Montero playing C. On and on.
2) It hasn't worked.  None of those guys have succeeded at the harder position, and it's currently KILLING Zunino to have to do everything as a defensice catcher AND work on his offense at the same time.  If we could put Zunino at DH or 1B for half his games, would he learn faster on offense?  Quite possibly.  But he's "Too valuable" as a great game-caller, leader and defender to lose that, so we're sacrificing his offense instead and hoping in a couple more years he can get it together.  The guy they didn't do that to: Seager.  He had to learn third, but they didn't keep him at 2B or try to force him to play SS.  So naturally who's the guy who succeeded out of the gate?  Seager.
3) The Ms are coming around on this notion. They realized their mistake with Ackley, moved him to LF (a la Alex Gordon) and he's suddenly succeeding after his adjustment period and turning into a plus fielder (a la Gordon).  They realized it with Franklin and traded him (as a 2B) to Tampa.  When they moved Saunders to RF his offense immediately improved.  Yes, his LF numbers are bad (indicating it might just be random, or a "sample size" issue) but he also played more LF early in his career, messing with those #s.  His numbers last year in CF vs LF, and his success as a mostly-LF this year is either the natural maturation of a hitter, or the growth that comes when you're not trying to to more than you're capable of in the field.  You decide.
4) Moving (middle) infielders to the (corner) OF destroys their trade value until they prove they can be more-plus with the bat there than they were in playing by a bag.  AL Shortstops in 2013 averaged a .680 OPS. Brad Miller has a .675 career mark (combining his good half-season last year and this year's disastrousness).  He has value as a middle infielder. The second you move him to the OF, you tank his value. LF averaged .725 and RF was at .740. Miller basically HAS to make the jump back to his year one numbers (.265/.320/.420) to be worth the move, and somebody is gonna wanna see him do it before they give you anything for him, since this year's .615 is bringing no one calling as a corner bat.  
5) We might care about trade value.  We have Romero, DJ Peterson (our #2 hitting prospect or thereabouts, slowed in AA with an injured wrist), Patrick Kivlehan (who was a top-3 bat in the Southern League until the last couple weeks when he got tired), Austin Wilson (demolished the MWL with a ~.900 OPS til his injury, is about 2 years away), Guerrero, Henry, Un-Suspended-Blash, Pizzano in a pinch, our #1 hitting Prospect Alex Jackson (who had his season cut short with a liner to the face), and wall-puncher Tank O'Neill, who sports a .240 ISO and is 11th in the MWL with 13 homers in only 240 PAs. We have a billionty guys to squeeze into those corner spots where we might move Miller.
Not to mention Saunders (.785 OPS in RF) and Ackley (.900 OPS in the 2nd half) as our theoretical corner bats who each have multiple years of club-control remaining. Where is Brad playing?  Are we trading Saunders? He's got 2 years of club control left and can manage spot duty in CF as well as play both corners.  He might not be able to stay healthy (didn't exactly play a 135 game schedule in the minors either), which is a concern... but when he's in, he can finally hit.  Can Miller hit more and be more healthy?  I dunno. I don't bet on it.
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Said all that to say: If you wanna make Miller a Bloomie-type, okay. But that's not likely to help his offense.  Instead of learning one position, he'll have to learn several.  He just spent all that time getting good enough to play SS (and he CAN play SS.  Not a gold-glover, but he can play it).  So if you believe Miller will eventually hit (and I do believe that) and he can't beat Taylor out to get the SS job back, then you should either move him to ONE outfield spot NOW so he can learn it and be Ackley 2.0, or you should leave him be.  Making him field everything and turning him into Zobrist will take a minute. Zobrist his ownself did not become more than a spot player until age 28. 
If you think Taylor's 100 PAs do not make him a lock at SS (and I don't) then I'd sure want another quality option around.  If Taylor turns into a quality starter, then trade Miller as a SS where he doesn't have to hit a ton to be valuable... but he probably will, especially in the minors.
If Taylor falters, then you can replace him with Miller's next go-round. 
I don't move Miller permanently.  We've done it a bunch with other players, but with the OF pipeline we're building we don't have to move Miller.  At least not unless he's completely blocked.  And if he IS completely blocked, I'm not sold that he's better than Peterson or Kivlehan or Wilson on a corner.  Or better than Ackley and Saunders in the next couple years either.  Maybe he's like Biggio who played a bunch of glove positions before settling in at 2B and exploding.  But for us, right now, we only have a few needs for a middle-infield bat, and one of them is in the middle infield. 
I want some kind of production out of SS.  If one guy black-holes, we have another guy. They are opposite-handed.  We SHOULD be able to Frankenstein league-average production for minimum wage using Miller and Taylor, and that removes the sinkhole in the offense.  Even with Miller's atrociousness this year the Ms are only a little below league-average value at the position. Let's get a bit more over a full season and see what happens.
... And I guess I typed enough to make it an article after all.  Oh well. ;)
~G

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