As I have mentioned I really don't want Sllen. You can try as hard as you want to sell me on him. IMO the best way to judge any player is by the numbers. Not traditional counting stats that are largely affected by the other players on a players team. The advanced stats that isolate a players individual performance are what they should be judged by. Judging players based upon work ethic, or size, or being clutch ironing a good teammate is not measurable and leads to lots of human error when making decisions on players based largely on that. So if you are saying that Judgin a book by its cover is taking a players career data and comparing it to that of other players during the same time frame judging a book by its cover then we have a different definition of the phrase. IMO you are doing much more judging a book by its cover by rating a player based on how hard he suddenly has started working and ignoring what the historical data over multiple seasons tells you.

No need to be upset. It is OK for people to have different opinions on the same players. That is how alot of actual trades come about.