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Touki Toussaint, rhp

Age: 20

Happy birthday, Touki Toussaint. For your gift, the Diamondbacks are sending you to join the Braves? ever-growing pile of talented arms. And even with Manny Banuelos, Mike Foltynewicz, Andrew Thurman and Matt Wisler new to the organization, Toussaint instantly becomes the most prized bauble in general manager John Hart?s chest of treasures.

The righthander, taken by Arizona in the first round of the 2014 draft, brings three pitches: a mid-90s heater, a 79-84 mph changeup and mid-70s curveball with sharp bite that projects to be double-plus. He?d shelved the curve for the first half of the season, with the Diamondbacks instead asking Toussaint to focus on command of his other two pitches. The No. 5 prospect in Arizona?s system and the No. 71 prospect on this year?s Top 100, Toussaint has top-of-the-rotation potential.

Year Club (League) Class W L ERA G GS IP H R ER HR BB SO

2015 Kane County (MWL) LoA 2 2 3.69 7 7 39 31 19 16 4 15 29

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If I gave you the choice of spending the money on anything you want (as far as the draft or international signings) would you still spend it on Toussaint?

Since the Yankees and Red Sox are out this year I would probably go really big on the international market and punt on the next two years.

Assuming of course the talent is there this year.

That would diffuse the risk.

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If I gave you the choice of spending the money on anything you want (as far as the draft or international signings) would you still spend it on Toussaint?

That is a really good question. Really good. I would assume you could put it to good use on July 2. Maybe four or five players?

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