Mets Game Plan - Starting Pitching, Closer Situation

According to Joel Sherman of the NY Post , the Mets have a game plan going into the winter meetings.
The Mets would like to get a quality starter* behind Johan Santana and give Jon Niese a shot as the fifth starter.

Sherman adds that he thinks this is a mistake and the Mets could do better with some other 5th starter. He lists Jason Marquis (Cubs), Jarrod Washburn (Mariners) and Nate Robertson (Tigers) who could be very available from teams looking to cut their salaries.

He thinks maybe free agent Jon Garland's price will fall to a reasonable range on a one or two year deal.

Perhaps in the coming weeks we will see if the White Sox are looking for a good return for Javier Vazquez or if they are desperate to move his contract (two years at $23 million left) and will take a poor package simply to lop the dollars from their payroll.

In the closer situation, the Mets have looked at both K-Rod and Fuentes. The Mets have come back with the same argument which is that K-Rod is 6 years younger than Fuentes and the Mets don't believe that Fuentes is a New York kind of pitcher...

* You want me to answer the Quality Starter behind Johan, bring in Jake Peavy already!