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A year from now, if nobody's been traded it seems like the M's will have three viable short stops competing for one available middle infield spot.
Gordon and Spec you'd know better than me, but it seems like Miller has the most upside (legit power, great minor league numbers, athletic enough to play the position if he can get the errors under control) Taylor's the better glove now and probably going forward but he doesn't carry nearly the offensive upside (best case scenario he hits, what, a babip dependent 270/330/380 or something... That'll play with a good glove at short but I'd bet the under on that). I'm honestly not sure how Marte compares with the glove but it seems like he's even more babip dependent than Taylor without much power but the advantage of being a switch hitter. And he's a lot younger so there may be more power there than he's shown so far.
It seems like but 2016 one of these guys is not in the organization. And the other is playing the Willie Bloomquist role.
I really have no idea what the organization thinks about Miller's struggles this year... If they're just growing pains or represent a serious block going forward. Numbers wise it seems like he was bad to start to the year but fixed things in June and has been mostly unlucky/benched since. We'll see if his recent hot steak buys him some more ABs...
Do they carry both these guys and Willie next year?