Braves pitcher Touki Toussaint talks Big Papi, sleeping and Twitter comedians

Ryan Fagan

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Sporting News writer Ryan Fagan is traveling through Florida and Arizona the next few weeks, stopping at spring training games and talking with as many players as possible. One of his side projects is a quick-hitter Q/A we’re calling “Two Minutes With …”

Up next: Braves pitcher Touki Toussaint

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What’s your first baseball memory?  
Toussaint:
I’d say hanging out with Big Papi. I was 9 years old. My best friend, his dad played for the Mariners and I guess they knew each other and we got to hang out with him. 

What’s the last show you binge-watched?
Toussaint:
"The Blacklist"

What’s your favorite free-time activity? 
Toussaint:
Sleeping. I slept 14 hours last night. It was great. 

What’s the talent you’d most like to have?
Toussaint:
Singing. R&B.

What was your first job?
Toussaint:
Baseball

If you were MLB commissioner for a day, what’s one thing you would do? 
Toussaint:
There’s a lot of rules now. I don’t know, honestly. 

What’s your favorite Twitter follow?
Toussaint:
I just follow a whole bunch of comedy stuff. Just go on there and laugh. Favorites are Kevin Hart, Michael Blackson. Who else is funny? Mike Epps.

What’s the best purchase you’ve made? 
Toussaint:
I bought my mom a house. It wasn’t a surprise. She’s the one who picked it out. 

What’s your most embarrassing injury? 
Toussaint:
I broke my foot riding a RipStick. Well, I slid into second base, then I got up and didn’t really feel it. Then I fell off the RipStick and I felt it. 

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Ryan Fagan, the national MLB writer for The Sporting News, has been a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 2016. He also dabbles in college hoops and other sports. And, yeah, he has way too many junk wax baseball cards.