Screw the Mets’ core — they’re good, though question marks persist about each one — get some real f’n players around them and everyone will stop talking about transmogrifying our set of players to the Phillies’ set.

The Dodgers need pitching badly, though. If we could somehow trick them into taking maybe Pelfrey/Maine and Nieve, or something like that- two decent, somewhat solid, young pitchers- for Martin, that’d be cool. He had a down year in pretty much every offensive stat, he’s going to be expensive and they’re getting short on cash, and his general theoretical value is down a bit (it’s not like he’s ever was a young Mike Piazza, though).

I don’t have confidence in Omar to possibly fleece another team with such a deal, though. I could see him being the person being fooled by another GM in a deal like that, though.