Positional Rankings: Left fielders

Carl Crawford has a lot to smile about.
Not only will the 29-year-old left fielder get to play in front of full houses at Fenway Park instead of his old Tampa home at Tropicana Field, he'll be doing it for $142 million over the next seven seasons.
The Red Sox weren't pleased about missing the playoffs in 2010, so in the offseason they went out and got the four-time All-Star, along with slugging first basemen Adrian Gonzalez.
"A dynamic player like this, he can be a game-changer for us," Boston GM Theo Epstein said back in December at Crawford's introductory news conference.
Last year Crawford set career highs with 19 homers, 90 RBI and 110 runs, while hitting .307 and swiping 47 bases. Plus, he won his first Gold Glove award.
Is Crawford the best left fielder in the game, thinking production for the next three years?
There's some tough competition out there.
Texas' Josh Hamilton hit .359 with 32 homers and 110 RBI last season in just 133 games and was named the AL MVP. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun, just 27, plays nearly every game while putting up impressive numbers of his own -- .304, 25 homers and 103 RBI in 2010.
The Eye on Baseball team and Fantasy writer Scott White rank their top nine in Part VII of CBSSports.com's Positional Rankings series.
Just don't get into an uproar if you don't see Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez on anyone's list. Even though he played mostly in left field last season, he's expected to play right in 2011.
Specific outfield positions were distinguished by depth charts from the respective teams' websites.
Editor's note: Since left, center and right don't matter in most Fantasy leagues, the Fantasy writers will cover their top nine overall outfielders in Wednesday's column about right fielders..