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"One simply cannot make this stuff up," Amy Shipley writes from Florida, where the Nats lost yet again. Shipley also mentions the latest spate of Ryan Zimmerman errors -- three in two games, and it would have been four, if not for a postmortem scoring change. Zimmerman's glovework still dazzles, but clearly, the across-the-diamond throw has become an anxiety. His error yesterday was, again, a throwing error. Zimmerman now has 12 E's, fourth-most in baseball, and already more than his total (10) from last year, when he played 104 games. Hanley Ramirez sets an MLB record among shortstops by driving in a run for the 10th consecutive game. By the way, among the three MLB players with 13 errors: Emilio Bonifacio, the maddening, sometimes electrifying player whom Florida acquired this offseason. Fangraphs.com makes the argument that Nyjer Morgan and Adam Dunn, sabermetrics be damned, "are near equals in value." It (link)