He’s Abraham Toro — THE BULL! — and he comes from Canada. Specificially, he comes from French Canada — Sacrebleu! Il est LE TAUREAU! — and the city of Longeuil, which sits directly across the St. Lawrence from central Montreal. From Montreal, Toro went on to play baseball at Seminole Junior College in Oklahoma, which seems like a weird move for a French-Canadian ballplayer to make, except that it’s also the exact same path fellow Quebecois Eric Gagne took. In fact, Toro, Gagne, and Russell Martin all attended the same high school, Polyvalente Édouard-Montpetit, Montreal’s amateur baseball powerhouse.
Meet The New Guy: Abraham Toro
