Kevin John Parada is an American college baseball catcher for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He was selected by The New York Mets selected in the first round with the 11th overall selection of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft.
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Prior to being selected by The New York Mets, he was considered a top prospect for the 2020 Major League Baseball draft, but went unselected, and enrolled at Georgia Tech to play college baseball.
Parada was born on August 3, 2001 to parents Mr. Parada and Darlene.
Kevin Parada Parents
Who Are Kevin Parada’s parents? As mentioned earlier, Kevin Parada’s parents are Mr. Parada and Darlene.
Much is not known about Kevin’s parents, except for the fact that his mum played college softball at Woodbury University.
Kevin Parada Career
Parada attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, California and finished his high school career with a .390 batting average, nine home runs, 66 RBIs, and 24 doubles.
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He was considered a top prospect for the 2020 Major League Baseball draft, but went unselected, and enrolled at Georgia Tech to play college baseball.
At Georgia Tech, Parada was instantly put into the starting lineup at catcher as a freshman in 2021 and over 52 games, he slashed .318/.370/.550 with nine home runs and 42 RBIs alongside twenty doubles which led the Atlantic Coast Conference, earning Freshman All-American honors.
Parada played nine games in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Chatham Anglers over the summer. He was also named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team with whom he spent part of the summer.
Parada entered the 2022 season as a top prospect for the upcoming draft and on March 1, 2022, he was named the National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper after a week in which he went 12-21 with five home runs and 17 RBIs.
On March 29, in a 17-3 win versus the Charleston Southern Buccaneers, Parada had his first ever two-home run game.
After he hit his 26th home run of the season, he set the Georgia Tech single season home run record, breaking the previous record set by Anthony Maisano in 1990.
Parada ended the season having played in sixty games, compiling a .361/.453/.709 slash line with 26 home runs and 88 RBIs.
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