Donaldson ditches 'In the Air Tonight' as walkup song

Despite earning the American League MVP award in 2015 with Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" blaring through the speakers each time he stepped to the plate at Rogers Centre, Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson will have a new walkup song in 2016.

Donaldson, who announced the forthcoming change Tuesday on Twitter, decided that "Ball Like This" by L.A. Leakers (feat. Future, Wiz Khalifa, and Kid Ink) will accompany his trips to the plate in Toronto this summer.

Though some fans may question Donaldson's timing, perhaps his new walkup song better reflects the 30-year-old's current juncture in his baseball career, which seemingly reached its pinnacle last summer in his first season with the Blue Jays.

Collins' lyrics, after all, suggested something momentous was looming, and Donaldson proved the words rather prescient by smacking 41 homers with a .939 OPS en route to the AL MVP.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord

Now, however, Donaldson has firmly established himself as one of the game's premier players, earning a newfound sense of hubris that's better conveyed in "Ball Like This":

You don't know what it takes to ball like this do ya?
They don't know what it takes to ball like this do they?
You don't know what it takes to ball like this do you?