Braves Player Pool Profile: Touki Toussaint

Touki Toussaint Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports An interesting fact about Touki Toussaint is that the Atlanta Braves acquired Touki on his 19th birthday, June 20th, 2015 (also, happy belated 24th birthday). Think what you will about Coppy, but this was definitely one of his better and smarter trades. Touki was seen as a top 10-15 prospect in the 2014 draft with double plus ratings in his fastball and curve, while even his change was seen to be above average in time. One of the challenges with Touki was just how raw he was despite that knee buckling curve.

His curve is his best pitch, and it’s not even up for debate. It has great movement and gets a ton of swing and misses. His next best pitch is…