Few perceive the ability of a sports activities soundtrack than the person behind the Rangers’ music at Globe Life Discipline: Chris Statzer, professionally often known as DJ CStatz.
ARLINGTON, Texas — One clear takeaway from the Texas Rangers’ epic 2023 World Collection title run is that music can certainly be a magical factor.
Look no farther than simply how built-in Creed’s music turned in that crew’s lore in the course of the stretch for proof.
Maybe nobody understands this higher than the person behind the music at Globe Life Discipline. Chris Statzer, professionally often known as DJ CStatz, is now getting into his second yr because the DJ for the Texas Rangers after having beforehand labored in the identical capability because the in-stadium music director for the Frisco Roughriders, the Rangers’ Double-A affiliate.
As Statzer informed us once we interviewed him in the beginning of the 2023 season when he was contemporary to his function, he takes his function fairly significantly.
“Music can drive the emotion and inform a narrative inside a recreation,” he mentioned.
Throughout Rangers video games, Statzer performs nearly any music a fan will hear, curing up every little thing from pregame tracks (upbeat tracks for Rangers batting practices, sluggish and drawn-out music for his or her opponent) and gamers’ walk-up songs to, sure, even stadium-wide Creed singalongs.
Because the motion unfurls on the sector under, Statzer sits in a sales space close to the press field degree and communicates through video to longtime public tackle announcer Chuck Morgan, who’s perched nearer to the sector. Statzer and Morgan, together with the remainder of the membership’s manufacturing crew, work in tandem to create a ballpark expertise for Rangers followers.
He additionally collaborates with the Rangers’ gamers themselves on the songs participant once they’re strolling as much as the plate of the pitchers’ mound. Gamers relay by clubhouse staffers the songs they wish to hear — even the components, all the way down to the precise timecode — to Statzer, who cuts the audio and retains an up to date spreadsheet of every participant’s tune choice, which may usually change all through the season.
Heading into his second yr on the job, Statzer says he is hyped to maintain offering the soundtrack for a successful crew.
“I’m excited to be again for my second season with the crew — and as freaking defending champs,” he mentioned. “After successful one thing like that, that each one eyes are going to be on each side. So [fans can] actually count on some model new sights and sounds as we head into this season!”
Statzer was additionally sort sufficient to share with WFAA each participant on the crew’s confirmed walk-up tune picks heading into the 2024 MLB season — that he is confirmed forward of the season opener, anyway.
Each Texas Rangers participant’s 2024 walkup tune:
Place gamers: