Lakeland, Fla. – When Miguel Cabrera strode to the plate in the first inning Friday, the music that accompanied him was unfamiliar. It wasn’t his usual walk-up song.
It was rap, with a Latino beat, lyrics in Spanish sung rapid-fire and the singer’s voice was oddly familiar. It is a voice you can often hear in the back corner of the Tigers clubhouse.
Yo, Ronny Rodriguez raps.
Who knew?
Well, the hundreds of thousands who have viewed his videos on YouTube certainly did. His boyhood buddies in the Dominican did, as did his high school friends from the Boston area.