Pedro in pinstripes?

What could have been had Pedro Martinez gotten his way in 1997, with the spiraling Expos set to trade the Hall of Fame-bound hurler.

“Yes, all the time,” Martinez wrote on a Bleacher Report live chat Tuesday when asked if he ever wanted to play for the Yanks. “I asked to be traded to the Yankees 3 times before I got to Boston…I was the last last one left on [Montreal’s] rotation and when I was asked where I wanted to be, at that exact moment [the] yankees were taking off, I wanted to be somewhere that I could win.”

The Yankees were on the cusp of winning three straight World Series when the Red Sox swooped in and traded Carl Pavano and Tony Armas to the Expos for Martinez, who was coming off the first of three Cy Young awards.

And the Yankees apparently also wanted Martinez. Then-Red Sox GM Dan Duquette said in 2015: “The Yankees were trying hard to trade for him, too.” But the Red Sox won out and quickly signed the free-agent-to-be to a six-year, $75 million contract extension.

The rest is history. Martinez turned into Public Enemy No. 1 in The Bronx during his seven-year stay in Boston, eventually winning a title with the Red Sox in 2004.

Martinez first mentioned his interest in the Yankees on his way to Cooperstown in 2015, and said he also asked the Expos to send him to the Indians, Orioles or Giants.