A good read on Deadspin…
They like veterans of a familiar, established, broadly caucasian type; they do not value younger players or those whose personalities are too large or oddly shaped to fit within ownership’s idea of what a ballplayer should be. As a result, the team has been run like the sort of family business in which the shelves are dusty and everyone behind the counter seems a breath away from attempting to strangle each other.
Source: Fred Wilpon Should Treat The Mets As A Small-Market Team