page_title: Kevin Plawecki
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin Plawecki / Professional career
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context_page_description: Kevin Jeffrey Plawecki is an American professional baseball catcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Prior to playing professionally, Plawecki attended Purdue University, where he played college baseball for the Boilermakers. He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets and Cleveland Indians.
  Plawecki starred in baseball for Westfield High School. In college, he was named an All-American in 2012, and won the Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year in 2012. The Mets selected him with the thirty-fifth overall selection in the 2012 MLB draft.
caption: Plawecki with the Mets in Spring of 2015
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