Kevin Plawecki couldn’t help but smile as soon as he saw reporters walking in his direction. He was at the wrong end of a clubhouse joke, but the young catcher handled the prank with class, answering questions about how a sex toy, which was accidentally included in a tweet by the Mets account late Friday night in a photo of T.J. Rivera, ended up in his locker.
“There’s some pranksters on this team,” a grinning Plawecki said before the Mets hosted the Marlins Saturday night at Citi Field. “Honestly, I don’t really know how to handle this one.