Last night both Fernando Martinez and Ruben Tejada were pulled from their minor league game. According to Adam Rubin at ESPN New York the Mets may be talking to the Mariners for a deal involving trouble 2B Chone Figgins.

Figgins got in an altercation earlier this season with his manager after he stood on the field and didn’t hustle after a ball relayed to the infield. This off season he signed a 4 year $36 million contract with the Mariners and has not lived up to expectations. He has been heating up as of late though.

It’s possible the deal could include Luis Castillo and Jeff Francoeur.

I’m a little leary of this deal if it comes to fruition I’m hoping we get back more than just Figgins. I could easily see Figgins becoming the next Luis Castillo. He’s 32 with a big contract batting .251. He definitely has speed and he knows how to win and is very versatile, which are all a plus. Let’s see what happens here.

The Mets have lost 15 out fo the last 21 games, if they want to have any real hope of makng one more push for the playoffs it will have to start on this road trip. Three games vs. the NL leading Braves and three vs. the 2nd place Phillies before coming back home for Colorado.

This week could determine if we have hope left this year or if it will be another empty August and September at CitiField. The good news is the Braves have come back down to the earth a little and Ryan Howard suffered what looked like a bad ankle sprain. With that said we’ll probably lose 5 out of 6.

Santana will start things out tomorrow vs. Tim Hudson. Things need to come together quickly for this team or we could be talking about 2011 sooner than later.