Pedro wants to return...

Pedro Martinez has decided he's not ready to retire and wants to pitch next year. His agent says the Mets are his priority but that there are several teams interested in his services. Pedro claims to be 100% healthy and all distraction are behind him.

Pedro Martinez still has "a lot of baseball left in him" and would like to finish his sure-fire Hall of Fame career in Flushing, according to his agent. source Daily News

Lets face it Pedro was a complete flop on the mound for the Mets, in four years he started 79 games ( healthy starters average 30 starts = 120 over 4 yrs.) with a record of 32-23 and an ERA of 4.87. That's hardly numbers to be expected of an Ace, I thought Pedro would break down by the end of the third year but never as soon as he did or as often, which made him a complete disappointment for me. I know there's the credibility theory but the only player I ever heard acknowledge Pedro's presence was Beltran and he was still trying to give himself to the Yankees, in fact Delgado chose to sign with the Marlins. After Beltran the Mets haven't made even one big name signing that Pedro needed to woe into Flushing.....

With that said in a very weak starting pitcher market the Mets might want to consider bringing him in on a one year contract as a fifth starter. They still need to sign a Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez, Jon Garland or Randy Wolf level pitcher but they still need another starter and Pedro just might be as good as anyone they could sign. Winning teams have depth and if Niese is penciled in as the fifth starter and someone is hurt or ineffective they have no one ready to replace them. However, if you bring Pedro back and he gets hurt or is ineffective then Niese gets the call....

But it doesn't sound like Pedro is in the Mets plans.....

"I'd be very surprised if he came back to us," a member of the Mets' hierarchy said on Tuesday morning. "We're going to need some arms at the back end of the rotation, so he could be in the mix for that if he wanted to come back. But we're not even sure he'd want to pitch for the kind of money he'd probably get." source MLB.com