The website DesignatedHits.com is pretty much the best thing the Internet has to offer. It lists players’ at-bat and bullpen entrance songs for every team in baseball, presenting it all simply and searchably while providing links to listen to the music from whatever service you prefer.

Check it out. Beware that you’ll likely spend a good deal of your workday clicking around, at least if you’re invested in ballplayers’ choices of walk-up songs as I am.

If you spend any time on the site at all, you’ll note some common themes. Many players enter games to music by Jason Aldean, Skrillex, Metallica and Pitbull. Nine different guys use Drake’s Started From the Bottom.

But a handful of guys seem dedicated to finding and employing non-traditional entrance songs. It’s them we celebrate today.

Honorable mentions: Two classes of players fit here. First, all the guys using hilariously dated hip-hop songs. Diamondbacks reliever David Hernandez enters games to Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise. Brewers shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt uses Good Vibrations from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, and Blue Jays catcher Josh Thole uses Tag Team’s Whoomp! There It Is.

The second group is all the dudes using pro wrestling theme songs, foremost among them Josh Reddick of the Oakland A’s. It’s been done at this point, but songs written as entrance music, it turns out, make for pretty funny entrance music.

Now, onto the Top 8:

8. Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth: Walking Dead theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8nglsPiZxQ

The only reasons this choice doesn’t rank higher are that it’s only one of several of Werth’s at-bat songs. It definitely gives Werth’s plate appearances an intense, spooky feel that seems to complement his massive beard.

7. White Sox reliever Nate Jones: It’s Not Unusual (Tom Jones)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrwO8b9iq34

Is Nate Jones related to Tom Jones or something? Just sharing the surname “Jones” seems like a very odd reason to pick this one, since there are so many other musical Joneses to pick from. But then, both Tom Jones and his best-known hit are endlessly entertaining, and maybe Nate Jones just wants to give U.S. Cellular Field a Vegas cocktail-lounge vibe.

6. Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey: Game of Thrones theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNpUnUBhURY

Baseball’s top knuckleballer loves himself some fantasy literature and once named his bat “Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver” after a sword used in The Hobbit. The song sounds fairly epic, in the traditional sense of the word.

5. Angels reliever Ernesto Frieri: Volare (Gipsy Kings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgSeJzLJFc

Typically, relievers enter games to songs meant to be intimidating. It’s hard to imagine that’s Frieri’s intent with the Gipsy Kings. Maybe he just likes the groove, or maybe he wants his opponents intimidated by the virtuosic nylon-string guitar playing.

4. Mariners shortstop Brendan Ryan: Jaan Pehechan Ho (Mohammed Rafi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgoak2kP6A

Brendan Ryan’s at-bat song is from the soundtrack of a 1965 Indian thriller film (and also, more recently, Ghost World and a Heineken commercial). It’s a pretty cool, swingy surf-rock jam.

3. Reds third baseman Todd Frazier: Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtFBRJFN3p8

Frazier’s from New Jersey, and uses Frank Sinatra songs as his at-bat music in tribute to his home state and his late grandparents. He can also sing a little bit, and seems like a generally awesome dude.

2. Royals infielder Chris Getz: RBI Baseball theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQt2t4PKTI

Almost impossibly awesome. Designated Hits doesn’t say, but here’s hoping Getz uses the appropriate RBI Baseball music when he comes up with runners on base.

1. Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder: Requiem (Mozart)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI

Impossibly awesome. How did no one tell me about this earlier? I have been publicly campaigning for triumphant classical music as baseball entrance songs since at least 2009.