Wow. That bad in LF? Egads! B-Ref has Seth Smith at -1.3 dWAR, Aoki at -0.5, and Guti at -0.3 (it pains to type in the latter). I figured these guys were playing replacement level. But that's a whole two games lost. But! Offensively Aoki is at -.3, Guti is 0.7, and Smith is 1.5 so it's almost break even out there, but still running a deficit. There are only so many Alex Gordons in the baseball world.
But how many franchises out there have memorable traditional left fielders at all? It seems that position is the fungible one for just about everybody. Even if you have a regular one, you put him there because he'll hurt you the least there with the glove (cough cough Barry Bonds).
How often do any of us ever say, "(Joe Slobotnik). Now there was a great left fielder."
But still, with everyone sending out a bat to play LF, that really says something about how bad our defense is out there. We have three guys, good bats (for the most part, Aoki...), mixing and matching, and we are still at a deficit.
OOPS! Misread Aolki's numbers. He's actually plus 0.2 with the bat so we really are a little bit over RLP with those three: +0.3 (2.4 Offense, -2.1 Defense)