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I would love to have seen ZZ Top back in the day. By the time I saw them in the mid-80's, they were well into the 'fur covered spinning guitar' stage of their career. They could still get after it a bit but it was mostly canned and rock-by-numbers-ish.
Blengino definitely likes twisting the knife when he can but in this case, I think he's right. It's been a problem for years. I like McLendon's approach, actually. He's telling them (paraphrasing), "they are putting that shift on you because they don't think you have the talent or the smarts to beat it by going the other way". Maybe that is starting to work for some of them but I'm not seeing it with Miller. He's taking a few more pitches, maybe, but he's still swinging like he's trying to pull that low and away pitch. I wouldn't be surprised to see him in Tacoma Monday. The club has another bat-first guy with good MLB experience hitting .384 down there in Franklin. I would send Miller down and tell him that he's not going to sniff the bigs again until the hits start falling the other way. It's not like Franklin's defense could be any worse than Miller's error laden offering of late. They got the depth - use it.