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Evan & Tiki

Hour 4: MLB Will Make the Yankees and Mets Division Rivals

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hour 4: Cinco de Five-Oh: Tommy lists the top 5 most important athletes in NY Baseball down the stretch. MLB realignment is coming, making the Mets and Yankees division rivals. and Tiki loves martinis.

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0:00.0

Here is your Cinco.

0:01.2

Cinco de Fivo with Evan and Tiki on the fan.

0:05.0

Cicot of the FIvo is brought to by Helix Wireless, connecting everything everywhere.

0:09.9

As Tiki stares at the tuccas of offensive linemen, I'm going to give you the five most important New York baseball players down the stretch.

0:17.8

Here we go.

0:19.0

Number five is Cody Bellinger. We talk about the King Aaron Judge. We talk about Stanton. I feel like the Yankees' second best player is Cody Bellinger. He's at a really good year. I think he is, in many Yankee fans' mind, their favorite player. He, we talk, Devin Williams hasn't, let me make sure I got this word right, acclimated himself, right? We're good, everybody. Right. To New York, where Cody Bellinger has, he just has that Yankee feel about him. Very important player down the stretch. I think that's a huge one because he, first of all, he's consistent. he gives you positional versatility throw him in the outfield really any of those positions you want to put him out there

0:39.2

and then when you need Goldie to take a day, you throw him at first base as well. Ben Rice is catching. So I think he is a huge one. There we go. Number four. Number four is Juan Soto. Juan Soto, who is having a, I would say, very good year. The one thing is that he has not hit with runners in scoring position. I believe Juan Soto in the last, you know, month and a half of the regular season, and then into October, we'll get a ton of big hits. Why? Because not only is he a generational talent in this great hitter, but he has been clutched

1:28.8

throughout his career. He's won a World Series, got the Yankees to a World Series, and he's got

1:32.5

a ton of big hits. So I expect those big hits to come. Right. And even if it takes a while

1:37.6

and it doesn't actually fully happen this year, he's getting on base a ton, a ton, three walks, even though I didn't

1:44.9

get a hit yesterday, three walks. So he's going to be on base, which makes things even more

1:49.7

enticing for the guys behind him, like Pete Alon. Yeah, the base running's been good, the defense has

1:54.3

been good. The only thing is he hasn't gotten the big hits, I expect them to come in bunch.

1:57.5

Number three. Number three is David Bednar, who has now become the, you know, Weaver as well, the ace out of that bullpen. And the most important inning in a baseball game is the ninth or the eighth if the best hitters are coming up. And he has been tremendous. He had that little bit of a blip in the first game against the Marlins. But since then, he has been awesome, and he is absolutely fully in the circle of trust of Yankee fans and Aaron Boone right now. So David Bednar is going to play a key role T. down the stretch here for the Yankees. Big one, because you know it's not just a ninth inning guy. If you need to have him get five outs, heck, you probably might even trust him to get six at this point.

2:35.0

Absolutely.

2:37.3

He will close for you.

2:38.6

He is the closer now.

2:40.0

Number two.

2:42.9

It's Francisco Lindor, the National League player of the week.

2:46.2

The Mets go as Francisco Linderre takes him.

2:47.9

He has heated up here.

2:49.5

The Mets have now won two in a row.

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