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Pedro's not the answer for Mets' fifth starter role

By Rob Neyer

Monday, March 9, 2009

As Bart Hubbuch writes, Sunday wasn't a good day for the Mets' No. 5 starter candidates. … PORT ST. LUCIE -- Paging Pedro Martinez? Less than a month before Opening Day, the "race" for the Mets' fifth-starter job remains as muddled and uninspiring as ever. Four of the five candidates threw yesterday, and the results were almost uniformly ugly. The Mets haven't expressed interest in bringing back Martinez, but one has to wonder if that will change after Tim Redding and Freddy Garcia bo ...

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