Abraham Toro


Abraham Josue Toro is a Canadian professional baseball third baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He was drafted by the Astros in the fifth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft.

Career

Toro attended Polyvalente Édouard-Montpetit High School and Vanier College in Montreal. Toro then attended at Seminole State College in Seminole, Oklahoma, where he played college baseball. In 2016, his only season at Seminole, he hit.439 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs over 55 games. After the year, he was drafted by the Houston Astros in the fifth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft.
Toro signed with the Astros and made his professional debut with the Greeneville Astros, batting.254 with 19 RBIs in 44 games. He began 2017 with the Tri-City ValleyCats before being promoted to the Quad Cities River Bandits in late July. In 69 games between the two clubs, he hit.246 with 15 home runs and 33 RBIs. In 2018, he began the year with the Buies Creek Astros, with whom he was named a Carolina League All-Star, and was promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks in July; for the season, Toro slashed.247/.345/.435 with 16 home runs and 78 RBIs in 133 games. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League. He returned to Corpus Christi to begin 2019, earning Texas League All-Star honors. After slashing.306/.393/.513 with 16 home runs and seventy RBIs over 98 games, Toro was promoted to the Round Rock Express, and hit.424/.506/.606 with one home run and ten RBIs over 16 games for them.
On August 22, 2019, the Astros selected Toro's contract and promoted him to the major leagues. He made his major league debut that night versus the Detroit Tigers, playing third base and going 0-for-4. On September 1, Toro played his second game in his home country of Canada. In the top of the ninth inning, he hit a two out, two run home run to break a 0-0 tie. In the bottom of the inning, he fielded the final out of the game, thus completing Justin Verlander’s third no-hitter. For Houston in 2019, Toro hit.218/.303/.385/.688 with two home runs and nine RBIs over 25 games.

Personal life

Toro is of French-Canadian and Venezuelan descent. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.