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1) Hamilton was not a particularly good fielder before his injuries and even playing left, he's not going to be a good left fielder IMHO.
2) Borbon (CF) is young and flashy but takes bad routes to the ball from what I've seen.  He's Adam Jones, part deux (defensively), leading me to believe he's going to be below average out there.
3) Vlad Guerrero has been promised occasional outfield time to stay in the games.  That's a BIG negative.
4) Young at 3B, when healthy is above average but I suspect last year was a fluky upspike year and he'll come down to Earth.
5) Elvis Andrus is the real deal IMHO, so no comnplaints there.
6) Ian Kinsler is above average at second...right now they don't have Kinsler though...not sure how long he's going to be out.
7) Chris Davis is well below average defensively at first.
8) Saltalamacchia and Teagarden are average at best receiving and holding down the running game.
I think the big gains they made on defense last year won't last.  I think they're going to give up many more runs than Taro's WAR analysis might suggest.