Buster Olney suggest the Mets build their staff this offseason as if Pedro is not even returning next year, he writes on his ESPN blog…

The Mets should plan for the 2007 season around the assumption that Pedro Martinez will not pitch next year


They fell into the trap of counting on him for the postseason this
year, but now that he's had major shoulder surgery, they should assume
he won't be ready next year. The word is that he's ahead of schedule in
his rehabilitation, but the Mets shouldn't listen to any of that. They
should go about the business of constructing a decent rotation behind Tom Glavine, by offering Lastings Milledge and others to the Marlins for Dontrelle Willis, by making an aggressive bid on Daisuke Matsuzaka, by having a decent fallback plan in the free-agent market (Jeff Suppan?).

If Pedro comes back in July and is ready to make an impact, he could
be, in effect, the best acquisition any team makes before the deadline.
But very few pitchers come back quickly from the type of surgery
Martinez had, and his brother, Ramon — who threw with the same kind of high-torque motion as Pedro — never came back.

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