“That would be kind of funny,” shortstop Corey Seager said, “like (Kyle) Farmer walking out to ‘Welcome to the Farm’.”īefitting his background, Smith walked up to a country tune prior to his at-bats at Triple-A Oklahoma City. He could probably mix it in at home, have a couple different walk-up songs. “I think he should have the flexibility to do something different at home because he gets it all the time. “You know, he probably gets it a lot on road games,” Dodgers first baseman Matt Beaty said. Will Smith has to walk up to Will Smith, right? For better or worse, Will Smith the rapper is credited with 175 songs on, an enviably long list to choose from. He shares a name with an entertainer born and raised in West Philadelphia, and thousands of others who will never record a piece of music. The Dodgers’ catcher was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. This was not the case for Will Smith on the occasion of his major league debut Tuesday. LOS ANGELES - He could have been named Kendrick Lamar, or John Mellencamp, or Engelbert Humperdinck, and perhaps the coincidence would be so powerful as to choose a walk-up song for him.