NEW YORK -- It's little secret that Pedro Martinez wants to return to the big leagues -- he's been saying it since the 2008 season ended. And it's little secret that he wants to do so with the Mets. Yet Friday morning played host to his most adamant thoughts on the subject yet.

Martinez said in an interview with the New York Post that he was "anxious" to rejoin the Mets and that he has a bit of unfinished business with his former club.

"I went over to the Mets with something in mind, to win a World Series in the National League, and I haven't achieved that," Martinez told the paper.

Martinez's agent, Fernando Cuza, is set to meet with the Mets at some point next week. And although the club has made it clear that free-agent starters Derek Lowe and Oliver Perez are its first and second options, respectively, it could feasibly sign Martinez along with one of those two.

Coming off a season in which he produced five wins and a 5.61 ERA, and coming off a two-year stretch in which he made a combined 25 starts, Martinez would come relatively cheap -- far cheaper than the four-year, $53 million contract he just completed.

Yet at 37 years old and presumably healthier than he had been throughout most of his Mets tenure, Martinez insisted that he still has plenty to give.

"I'm anxious to get out there with the team that we have right now," he told the Post. "We should be really close to a team that will win it all, and I want to be part of it."