Auston Matthews hits a home run while taking batting practice with the Toronto Maple Leafs at Rogers Centre in 2017 #leafs #leafsnation #leafsforever #austonmatthews
They say that he was really good at baseball as a kid in Arizona, and possibly could have gone that route instead. But he loved going to hockey games with his uncle who died at an early age, so hockey became his favourite sport. Austin Matthews' nickname is Papi because his favourite baseball player was David "Big Papi" Ortiz.
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He could play baseball for the Jays should his hockey career fail to pan out
They say that he was really good at baseball as a kid in Arizona, and possibly could have gone that route instead. But he loved going to hockey games with his uncle who died at an early age, so hockey became his favourite sport. Austin Matthews' nickname is Papi because his favourite baseball player was David "Big Papi" Ortiz.