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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>Billy McKinney</strong></p><p><strong>OF</strong></p><p><strong>Dallas, Texas</strong></p><p><strong>Who plays the best music?</strong> I&#8217;d have to probably give that to Wilkin Castillo. He&#8217;s all over it. He&#8217;s dancing. It&#8217;s pretty fun to watch.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your pregame playlist?</strong> You know, I just kind of listen to the clubhouse, what&#8217;s going on around the clubhouse. Just kind of sit at my locker and hear what&#8217;s going on.</p><p><strong>What&#8217;s your walk-up song?</strong> It&#8217;s called &#8220;Home&#8221; by MAX, and it&#8217;s a remix of it, but I heard it once and I liked the way the beat dropped on it. It kind of gets me going a little bit.</p><p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DtlzCIjAhpE" height="315" width="560"></iframe></p><p><strong>Who has the weirdest and most-unique walk-up song?</strong> Well I mean, (Jake) Cave&#8217;s always with Eminem and I&#8217;m not &#8212; nah, I love Eminem &#8212; but he just wears it out a little bit. Cave really likes to rub it in. But nah, I really like Cave&#8217;s walk-up songs.</p><style>
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RailRiders Playlist: Billy McKinney just taking it all in