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Retool the Mets? That’s ridiculous!

ATLANTA — The call keeps coming from angry e-mailers, even angrier talk-radio hosts and callers and, in one mystifying case, an otherwise respected national baseball writer.

The general line of thought: Blow up the Mets! Break up the core! Trade (insert name here)!

Ridiculous.

Utterly and completely ridiculous.

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This isn’t to defend general manager Omar Minaya, whose team was finally put out of its misery Sunday night in Philadelphia when, appropriately enough, Pedro Martinez mathematically ended the Mets’ playoff chances.

That’s the same Pedro Martinez who is 5-0 with Philadelphia after practically begging Minaya and the Mets to re-sign him this spring. No amount of spin-doctoring by manager Jerry Manuel will excuse Minaya’s decision to sign Oliver Perez and Tim Redding instead.

Plain and simple, the 63-81 Mets have been a colossal disappointment this season, an injury-ravaged $149 million disaster as they play out the string starting tonight here against the Braves.

But having said that, there also is no excusing the incessant screams to start from scratch that are coming from misguided fans, wrongheaded radio barkers and a recent ESPN.com report quoting anonymous scouts and “baseball executives.”

If they’re not wanting Jose Reyes dealt, then they’re saying Carlos Beltran or David Wright needs to go. Or even Johan Santana or Frankie Rodriguez.

All because of a season in which the Mets sent more than 20 players to the disabled list, where said players spent a whopping total of 1,007 days. No other team in baseball even comes close to that depressing, almost unbelievable total.

Here is a better number for the “blow ’em up” crowd to consider: 25. That’s the grand total of games the Mets got this year with their nucleus of Reyes, Beltran, Wright and slugger Carlos Delgado on the field at the same time.

That’s 17 percent of the Mets’ schedule to date, and all of those games came before Delgado underwent hip surgery in mid-May.

And you know what the Mets’ record was in those 25 games? A respectable 15-10. That’s a .600 winning percentage, which would extrapolate to a 97-65 record over a full season.

Not only that, but the Mets were 28-21 and a half-game behind the Philadelphia in the NL East on the final day of May before they were swept up in an almost biblical tidal wave of injuries.

People seriously want to break up a potential 97-win team?

Reyes hasn’t played since May because of a hamstring tendon injury, so Minaya would be selling low — never a good idea. And don’t forget that Reyes is just 26 years old and signed for a manageable $20 million over the next two seasons.

Wright is similarly affordable, not to mention the face of the franchise and a player who has yet to reach the peak of his career.

It makes no sense to deal Beltran, either. Questions about his toughness aside, he is a Gold Glove center fielder and a .300 hitter. And on the flip side, the $37 million the Mets owe Beltran over the next two years and questions about his right knee would make finding a trading partner — much less getting good value in return — difficult.

It’s admittedly not easy, but try to put this mess of a season aside, a year when everything that could possibly go bad for the Mets did, and look at this team logically.

Minaya has made a lot of wrong moves this year, but blowing up the Mets would be his biggest mistake of all.

bhubbuch@nypost.com