MLB trade rumors and news for April 16th, 2018

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History was nearly upon us as Bartolo-I’m-Nearly-45-Years-Old-Colon took a perfect game into the 8th inning of last night’s match up against the Astros. While his perfect game dreams came crashing down, Big Sexy will always have a special place in our baseball loving hearts.

• The struggling Rangers lost their best and most durable player to injury, as All-Star shortstop Elvis Andrus is out 6-8 weeks with a broken right elbow.
• The Mets are now down two catchers. Kevin Plawecki will be out 3-4 weeks with a broken hand.
• The Rangers have signed Yovani Gallardo to a minor-league deal.
• The Nationals added another veteran first baseman to their organization, signing Mark Reynolds to a minor-league deal.
• There are a lot of new names in new places this season, so we decided to take a look at 10 players and how they are doing on their new teams.
• Padres’ Dinelson Lamet will have Tommy John surgery.
• This Noah Syndergaard pitch defied the laws of physics and probably started a tropical storm somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.
• Kiké Hernandez’s glorious walk-up music is the ‘Yodeling Walmart Kid’ because how else will you establish dominance in the batter’s box?
• Rob Manfred is using a bulldozer to fix a leak in baseball’s roof.

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