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<p><em>If you walk into any baseball clubhouse or locker room at any level &#8212; professional, college or even high school &#8212; there&#8217;s a good chance music will be blasting out of someone&#8217;s speakers. It could be country, rock, hip-hop and rap, R&amp;B, reggae or Latin music.</em></p><p><em>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. Music is everywhere in baseball and it&#8217;s extremely diverse.</em></p><p><em>Each week we&#8217;ll take a look at how music influences each player&#8217;s game.</em></p><p><strong>Jake Cave</strong></p><p><strong>OF</strong></p><p><strong>Hampton, Va.</strong></p><p><strong>Who plays the best music?</strong> That&#8217;s tough, honestly. (Wilkin Castillo&#8217;s) pretty good at it. He&#8217;s pretty good with the music. I would prefer to say myself because I&#8217;m more of a fan of the old school rap, more hip-hop that way, and sometime the stuff that gets played is a little more of the 2017 genre. I prefer more of the older stuff.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your pregame playlist?</strong> It&#8217;s all Eminem. There&#8217;s some others that mixed in there too &#8212; some old 50 Cent, some groups like that. Just hype-rap guys. That&#8217;s the kind of stuff I like to listen to.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your walk-up song?</strong> It&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;Till I Collapse&#8221; by Eminem. It&#8217;s one of my favorite songs of all-time and it&#8217;s a hype song, so I figured that&#8217;d be a good one to come out to.</p><p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eNtfHqXO4b4" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p><p><strong>Who has the weirdest walk-up song?</strong> Well, no. Billy McKinney&#8217;s one of those guys that every one of his walk-up songs are terrible. Even if it is a good walk-up song, he picks the worst time to play it. Can you please put that in the newspaper? That&#8217;s the only one I can really think of. Everyone else&#8217;s is good.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By DJ Eberle</p><p>djeberle@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach DJ Eberle at 570-991-6398 or on Twitter @ByDJEberle</p></shirttailMeta></div>

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