Touki Toussaint is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on June 20, 1996 in Florida, Florida, United States. He joined an Arizona Diamondback’s organization that included slugger Paul Goldschmidt.
Toussaint finished his first professional season with a 2–4 record and an 8.48 ERA over 12 total appearances. Toussaint began the 2015 season at extended spring training, then joined the Kane County Cougars in May.
Toussaint was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida, to Dany Toussaint and Kahaso Kiti. He is of Haitian and Kenyan descent. Toussaint’s nickname, Touki, is a portmanteau of his parents’ surnames. The family moved to Haiti when he was three months old. Toussaint and his mother moved back to Florida when he was six. He stopped playing baseball at age 10 due to a strikeout-filled season as a batter, and focused on soccer and hockey only to return to baseball two years later. Toussaint attended Coral Springs Charter School for his freshman year before transferring to Coral Springs Christian Academy also in Coral Springs, Florida. As a junior in 2013, Toussaint was a MaxPreps All-American after he was 6–2 with a 0.78 earned run average (ERA) and 83 strikeouts. He also hit .458 with six home runs and 32 runs batted in. He was named Broward County’s Class 5A-4A-3A-2A Player of the Year. Toussaint committed to play college baseball at Vanderbilt University.
He was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
He earned a gold medal with the USA Baseball 16U National Team in 2011.
Dany Gilbert Kiti “Touki” Toussaint (/ˈ t uː k i t u ˈ s ɑː n t / ; born June 20, 1996) is a Haitian-American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.
