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If you walk into any baseball clubhouse or locker room at any level — professional, college or even high school — there’s a good chance music will be blasting out of someone’s speakers. It could be country, rock, hip-hop and rap, R&B, reggae or Latin music.
The same can be said as teams go through their pre-game workouts or players walk up to the plate or out of the bullpen. One song could be Zac Brown Band and the next could be Nicki Minaj’s “No Frauds.”
Music is everywhere in baseball and it’s extremely diverse.
Each week we’ll take a look at how music influences each player’s game.
Mason Williams
Outfielder
Pawtucket, R.I.
Who plays the best music? Obviously you can see we have some Latinos here, we have some Americans. We always play a wide range of music. Usually the starting pitchers have control to whatever they want to hear for the day, but no one really complains. We listen to everything. J.R. (Graham) plays some hard rock, and so did (Kyle Higashioka) when he was here. He also liked playing guitar.
What’s your pregame playlist? I’m a hip-hop guy for sure. Future and Drake mostly. But when I’m in the clubhouse and I want to listen to something like that, I’ll just go ahead and throw my headphones on.
What’s your walk-up song? Right now I don’t (have one), but I do plan on it. Whatever’s trendy at the time or sometimes I usually go with an old school R&B. Something that really makes me settle down and get ready for my at-bat.
Who has the oddest walk-up song? I’m obviously American, so some of these Latin songs that we hear are pretty weird and funny sometimes. I’m a fan of Latin songs, but it’s funny sometimes.