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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.

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.

Cito Culver

INF

Rochester, N.Y.

Who plays the best music? I can’t pick myself, right? Mason (Williams’) got some good stuff going. Wilkin (Castillo) was really good with it. Wilkin was good. Mason and Wilkin pretty much.

What’s your pregame playlist? I love hip-hop. I’m a big fan of hip-hop. Anything I can really dance to and make a fool of myself, I try to do that. I try to keep it loose, have fun.

What’s your walk-up song? Right now I have “Through the Late Night” by Travis Scott and Kid Cudi. I like it. It’s a good song. It kind of describes what we do. It’s like sleep through the day, then we play all through the late night. It’s literally what we do.

Who has the weirdest walk-up song? I feel like I know all of these guys well enough so it doesn’t surprise me, but we were in Lehigh Valley and Jorge Alfaro, who’s a Latin catcher for them, and he walked up to a country song. So that threw me off a little bit.

Culver
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