ESPN.com Jayson Stark reports that the New York Mets have looked into bringing back Pedro Martinez.

• The club has spoken with Martinez’s agent, Fernando Cuza.
• The Mets are kicking around the idea internally.
• Martinez’s price tag may be more than what the team wants to guarantee.
• One club offcial (not of the Mets) told ESPN.com that Martinez “wants more than Brad Penny got” from the Cardinals.  (one-year, $7.5 million plus incentives that can go up to $9 million if Penny pitches 205 innings or more).
• The Mets have spoken with a number of free-agent starters and are more focused on a group that include Joel Pineiro, Doug Davis and Jon Garland.
• You can see Pedro Martinez’s statistics here.