Phillips disappoints, Santana emerges

Olney: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/buster-olney/post/_/id/1681?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Miggy eyes another Triple Crown
Cameron: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9285747/kyle-kendrick-tops-players-whove-reinvented-2013-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Top early-season turnarounds
Petriello: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9287861/texas-rangers-showing-making-offseason-moves-was-way-go-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Quiet winter doesn't slow Texas
Spratt: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9286429/arizona-diamondbacks-paul-goldschmidt-setting-mvp-pace-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Goldschmidt setting MVP pace
Law: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9277478/houston-astros-do-not-take-mark-appel-first-mock-draft-2013-mlb-draft?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Appel not No. 1 in mock draft

Cleveland's Brandon Phillips was one of the biggest rookie busts of recent memory.

Updated: March 10, 2004, 11:23 AM ET

By Jim Baker | MLB Insider

It's called accountability. We in this business don't really have a lot of it. Fortunately, nobody is standing around with a calculator figuring out how accurate our predictions turn out to be. That's a good thing -- except when we're right. Then it would be nice to see a headline that screams:

EXTRA! EXTRA! WRITER NAILS PRESEASON PICK!

With that in mind, sometimes it's fun to go back and see what I wrote in the past. Other times, it's more like torture. I thought I might take a glance back one year ago and see how some of the things I said panned out.

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