Actually, they can't, because neither one is matching that .740 OPS for the season over the bad stretch that you picked out for Dunn. Every player goes through bad stretches so when you cherry pick time frames, it's pretty easy to make a player look good/bad. He'll probably get hot again and wind up close to his career OPS. We can probably get by with Reynolds and Overbay for the season but I don't know why anyone needs to downplay Dunn so much. Is he worth $15M this season, no. Is he still a good player that can reach base well and hit for power, yes. I downplay him because his defense is awful, and is a negative value, and needs to be considered, as well as the money he would cost. When you consider defense, he's barely an upgrade over Reynolds at a significant cost increase.