You're right. But as I recall he had a really bad slump, his worse in fact.
I remember one game against Oakland, **** Williams was managing the A's and in a tight game, Yaz repped the go ahead run at the plate.
Even though Yaz was in the midst of probably his worse slump, Williams came out and changed pitchers, so paranoid was he of Yaz's bat. Slump not withstanding. Wouldn't you know Yaz hit the game winning homer on that at bat.
I know I went off topic but I thought that story was too cool not to share.