Kansas City Royals: Walk Out Songs For Pitchers

Jason Vargas

Jason Vargas is probably going to miss most of the 2016 season if he winds up playing at all this year. He’s coming off Tommy John’s surgery and will likely not be ready to pitch until late in the season. If he can make it back for the playoffs, that could be a plus for the Royals.

Vargas has been consistently average in his Major League career. He’s never really been great, but he’s never really been bad either. He’s always hovering somewhere in-between awesome and ‘meh’.

Vargas turned out to be a very steady pitcher for the Royals in his first season. He went 11-10 with a 3.71 ERA across 187 innings for the Royals in 2014. He also pitched in two different playoff victories for the Royals though he only earned the win in one of them.

To find Vargas’ walk-out song you have to go way back to his college career. Vargas played college ball for Long Beach State who are known as ‘The Dirtbags’. Because of his college career, he’s earned the song “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus.

Vargas is far from a ‘Dirtbag’ in real life and is one of the more mild-mannered of Royals’ players. The problems with a nickname though is it becomes difficult to separate yourself from it once it’s been handed out.

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