MET NOTES

PORT ST. LUCIE – Sandy Koufax was with Mets bullpen coach Guy Conti yesterday when he decided he wanted to chat with one of the pitchers.

“He said to me, ‘I’d like to say hello to Petey,’ ” Conti said. “And I just called him over. I said, ‘Hey, Petey, come on over here.’ ”

So that’s how Pedro Martinez and Koufax, a good friend of Fred Wilpon and an occasional visitor to Mets’ spring training, started talking yesterday at Tradition Field.

“He asked about my family, as always,” Martinez said. “Like a good man always will do.”

Martinez, a former Dodger, actually goes back a bit with Koufax, as he spoke at Martinez’ first spring training clinic in Vero Beach years ago. Recalled Martinez, “Even then, it was more about the person than the pitching.”

Martinez said he’s learned plenty from Koufax, such as “how I step on the rubber, how I balance my leg. I still maintain how I come off the rubber like him. I still bend my leg going forward like he used to do. I still believe what he said was most important: throw a first-pitch strike.”

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In the Mets’ first intrasquad game, the “B” team (made up of reserves) beat the “A” team (starters), 3-1. Mike DeJean, Yusmeiro Petit, Juan Padilla and Blake McGinley each threw a 1-2-3 inning, while Andres Galarraga hit an RBI double.

Miguel Cairo, who played just three games at short last year with the Yankees, saw some time at that position yesterday, and Randolph said he feels comfortable with Cairo there in the short-term.

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There are three Mets on Baseball America’s annual Top 100 prospects list – OF Lastings Milledge (No. 11), RHP Petit (46) and RHP Philip Humber (50