The kid didn’t miss a beat.
Kevin Plawecki stepped into injured starting catcher Travis d’Arnaud’s spot on Tuesday night and in his major league debut gave the Mets everything they might have hoped for.
The 2012 first-round pick had two hits and scored two runs. He threw out a baserunner. And he caught five members of a new pitching staff with aplomb in a 7-1 win over the Braves at Citi Field. “We all felt this in spring training after we saw him play,” Terry Collins said.
“There was a lot of discussion, and we all know the history with Travis and concussions and we thought, ‘Hey if we ever lose this guy to something, we’ve got something coming.