The Dodgers may have found a solid every-day third baseman in Wilson Betemit. AP

3. Wilson Betemit, Dodgers
Consider it downright strange to be able to get at the trading deadline a 26-year-old switch-hitter with a .512 slugging percentage making only $345,000. Betemit just might flourish with regular playing time, though if there is one concern it is that he hits so poorly (.222) from the left side, the most frequent side for a switch hitter. Only Philadelphia and San Diego have returned a worse slugging percentage out of the third base position than Los Angeles, so Betemit fills a big hole. He may not be a budding star, but he should provide the pop the Dodgers need.

4. Carlos Lee, Rangers
The toughest commodity to find at the trading deadline is a starting pitcher who can win one of the first three games of a postseason series. How hard is it? It hasn't happened since 1995. Next most difficult find: a middle-of-the-order hitter. In what was a win-win trade for Milwaukee and Texas, the Rangers get the biggest short-term bang by adding a legit run producer who should help Mark Teixeira to a bigger second half. And the Rangers are convinced this may not turn out to be a rental, even though Lee figures to at least match the four-year, $52 million contract the Yankees gave Hideki Matsui. Said one Texas source, "We feel like we have a real good chance of keeping him here."

5. Rheal Cormier, Reds
Cincinnati GM Wayne Krivsky may have overspent, but he deserves credit for attacking the obvious weakness of the club, his bullpen, over the last month to establish the Reds as the wild-card favorites. Cormier joins Gary Majewski, Bill Bray and Eddie Guardado in the reengineered bullpen. Cormier is more than a left-handed specialist; he's held right-handed hitters to a .197 batting average and no home runs and only three doubles all season.

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