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We don't jump on people for mistakes here.  :- )
About 1979 or something, James (shockingly) argued that Morgan had been the best player in the NL for several years -- remember there were no sabermetrics then -- and that nobody ever acknowledged it.  (Morgan's BB totals were completely shoved aside, as was the position-scarcity issue.)
Then "after he towered over the NL like the Colossus over Rhodes, they finally gave him an MVP, and then in 1976 he went out and did it all again.  And now hitting .250, he's still one of the better players in the league."  Or somesuch.
One of the happiest chapters of my life, being 10-14 years old during the 1972-1976 era of the Reds. 
I'm glad I wasn't a sabermetrician yet.  Johnny Bench and Pete Rose were best appreciated viscerally, as are Christopher Nolan, Pink Floyd and Ichiro.