On with the MLB Monday show on bad voting for defensive excellence: the most undeserved Gold Gloves of the National League’s 2000s decade. We have a few players below who have appeared in our miniseries on defense before, and we have at least one guy below who will show up again in the future. Thus is the nature of the ignorant sports mediot, people who owe it to their profession to just “do better” every time they act.

Here are the “worst” NL GG winners of the inital decade this century, in reverse order, although like the AL voting in the same time period, voters seemed to be getting “better” despite some really bad mistakes, still:

9t. Steve Finley, CF, 2000 (0.0 dWAR): He was in our NL 1990s piece, too, although for much worse than this. We almost can overlook this one, since he won a deserved GG in 1999 with 1.9 dWAR before bouncing back with a 0.6 dWAR effort in 2001. So, obviously, this isn’t a really big deal. His career was up and down on defense, which maybe is fitting considering his other “issues” we have explored in these spaces before.

9t. Matt Kemp, CF, 2009 (0.0 dWAR): We will see this guy again in two weeks, but for now, this was his first GG vote win, and it coincided with a then-best offensive year for him (5.2 WAR). He also had posted 08 dWAR in 2008, so we know how this goes with votes coming a year after the defensive reputation is established and/or when the player explodes offensively. It’s a weird psychology, these GG votes, obviously.

8. Todd Helton, 1B, 2001 (-0.2 dWAR): This was the first of three GG vote wins in a four-season stretch, and it was the only one to display negative value. Overall, he was a -5.0 dWAR player for his whole career combined, yet he had posted 0.9 dWAR the year before—see above. His bat really took off in 2000 as well, on his way to a Hall of Fame career, so this vote makes sense in context of the same things we already know.

7. Scott Rolen, 3B, 2003 (-0.3 dWAR): Another Hall of Fame, he was well known for his defense, posting 21.2 dWAR over his career, combined … which is amazing. This was literally the only full season of his career that had negative value with the fieldwork. He posted an MLB-best 3.3 dWAR in 2004, as well, so we can consider this a distinct anomaly. He won eight GG votes, overall, so we can forgive the voters, again.

6. Mike Lowell, 3B, 2005 (-0.5 dWAR): This was the only GG vote win of his career, in which he demonstrated a decent ability to field his position (2.4 dWAR overall combined). And this was his second season in the defensive red, too, which is weird; he also posted a -0.1 oWAR mark, so he had a terrible season any which way you slice it. We really have no idea what the voters were looking at with this one.

5. Adrián González, 1B, 2008 (-1.0 dWAR): This is where the going gets rough(er) on our list. To this point, he had never posted even a neutral dWAR mark in his career. What inspired this vote? It was his best offensive season to date, but it was hardly a breakout season of stardom. Overall, he won three more GG votes with positive dWAR marks, so he was on the cusp of being “better” on defense. But this season? Nope.

4. J.T. Snow, 1B, 2000 (-1.2 dWAR): We are so sick of this guy at this point—and his undeserved defensive reputation. He was both our 1990s lists, amusingly enough, and this was his final season of winning the GG vote. He never had a positive-value dWAR in a full season until 2003, at age 35. And we have our suspicions about other things in his career, too. Never even an All Star, his whole career is problematic in multiple ways.

3. Bobby Abreu, RF, 2005 (-1.5 dWAR): The only GG vote win in career that saw him compile -10.9 dWAR, this is a head scratcher. Before this season, his last positive dWAR year had been in 2000. This also was his worst offensive-value season since 1998, as well. So … maybe he made some highlight-reel throws, or maybe the voters were on crack. From 2001 to the end of his career in 2014, he was never a positive fielder.

2. Derrek Lee, 1B, 2003/2005/2007 (-1.7/-0.4/-0.9 dWAR): The only guy on today’s list to have multiple seasons of garbage GG wins, he put together -11.0 dWAR combined in his career. He never had a full season with a positive dWAR—ever. His first GG vote win came in his hitherto-best offensive year, when his team made the postseason. His second GG vote win came when he posted his best oWAR ever. The third? No clue.

1. Nate McLouth, CF, 2008 (-2.1 dWAR): Yeah, this is just terrible. At age 26, he had never posted a positive dWAR mark, but this was his best offensive season yet/ever (4.8 oWAR). That is the only explanation here, but how do the eyes not see the brutal problem with such a negative sabermetric on defense? To his credit, he posted 1.6 dWAR combined in the next three years, but he finished his career in the red (-6.2 dWAR).