How to Deal with Less Than Ideal Defense Topic

Here is my projected lineup for an NL team playing in Wrigley:

1) Player Profile: Omar Valentin - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports LF 18/32/78/79
2) Player Profile: Greg Gibbons - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports 2B 77/72/88/78
3) Player Profile: Dingo Price - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports 3B 78/78/88/77
4) Player Profile: Vasco Correa - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports 1B 55/54/50/52
5) Player Profile: Alberto Santana - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports RF 9/23/65/56
6) Player Profile: Jose Cortes - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports CF 77/81/83/77
7) Player Profile: Gavin Webster - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports C
8) Player Profile: Emmanuel Scheffer - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports SS 89/90/88/95

Still playing around with the lineup, but this is what I have for now.  More worried about the defense than the exact order.  I tried to get a CFer through trade or FA, but no luck so far.  I picked up Player Profile: Dennys Newman - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports in the rule v, so I could bench Gibbons, move Cortes to 2B, and play him in CF to at least improve the range.  Scheffer is a plus defender at SS.  Price is a plus defender at 3B.  Correa is plus at 1B.  Everyone else is slightly negative to quite a bit negative.  I understand you can get away with a C in RF...what about LF?  I'm pretty much stuck with this team, so there's not a lot I can do to overhaul it.  It's a gamble.  Pitching staff is actually good (ranked #1 in the preseason poll).  How bad with this defensive alignment hurt them?
1/28/2016 6:42 PM (edited)
Swap LF and RF.   At least get the arm advantage if RF since LF is a dead zone anyway.    I'm not even 100% positive that you wouldn't be better off putting your 1B in LF and one of the C at 1B.   It's a horrible D either way but you have to try to mitigate the damage done.
1/28/2016 7:23 PM
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