Rendon isn't bad defensively. He is a rookie but he has shown flashes of a darn good glove wherever he ends up at.
But he's below average at second. Yet there isn't a single person that would swap him out for Espinosa's supposed gold glove. In fact, if you could promise that Espinosa could hit like he did in 2011, there still wouldn't be anyone that would Espinosa playing second over Rendon
Defense is worth, maybe, 25%. Probably more like 15%