Christmas in July isn’t just a retail gimmick. In Queens, it’s a pretty fair way to describe the 2025 New York Mets. Some players have been pleasant surprises, delivering unexpected gifts like clutch hits, steady defense, or simply showing up when the roster needed them most. Others? Let’s say Santa’s keeping receipts. The Naughty List is alive and well, and a few names on it were penciled in with high hopes back in April. It’s the season of mid-year evaluations, and while one player deserves an early present for overdelivering, another is looking at a pile of coal and a whole lot of questions.
1 NY Mets player has been more useful than expected, 1 who has been less
