We’re about two weeks away from the July 31st non-waiver trade deadline and we’ll take a look at the six different divisions and see who are the buyers and sellers:

As of this article, four games separate the first place San Diego Padres from the last place San Francisco Giants. The Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers are tied for the Wild Card lead and the Giants are two games out of the last playoff spot, so everybody but the Diamondbacks are buyers.

Buyers

San Diego Padres:
The Padres need an outfielder with a good bat. They have been mentioned as suitors for the Houston Astros Lance Berkman (can play left field), free-agent Jermaine Dye, Washington Nationals Josh Willingham and Milwaukee Brewers Corey Hart.

Other options for the Padres include Raul Ibanez (Phillies), Jose Bautista (Blue Jays), Austin Kearns (Indians) and David DeJesus (Royals).

The Pads could also be looking for starting pitching since many of their young pitchers could be on a strict inning count. San Diego was interested in right-handed pitcher Jake Westbrook of the Cleveland Indians earlier this week.

Colorado Rockies:
They need infield depth especially since starting shortstop Troy Tulowitzki is out with a broken wrist. Players mentioned include Florida Marlins Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla. Baltimore Orioles utility man Ty Wigginton would also be a good fit. These players won’t come cheap. The Marlins may be interested in catcher Chris Iannetta, as well as some of the Rockies’ pitching.

Los Angeles Dodgers
The Dodgers have been looking for starting pitching – a front-of-the-rotation type of guy. They wanted Cliff Lee, but that didn’t happen. They could be interested in Houston Astros’ Roy Oswalt or Arizona Diamondbacks’ Dan Haren (if the DBacks are willing to trade within the division), but the team is limited by the pending divorce of the McCourt family, the owners of the Dodgers. GM Ned Colletti could get creative and involve a third team to take on salary to get one of the stud pitchers.

The Dodgers could also use relief pitching. Manager Joe Torre doesn’t trust anyone other than Jonathan Broxton, Ronald Belisario and Hong-Chih Kuo, so if they continue to use this formula then they’ll be headed for failure.

San Francisco Giants
The Giants need a bat, but in order to get that elusive bat they’ll need to give up one of their starting pitchers. San Francisco was working on a deal for Corey Hart, but as of now GM Brian Sabean hasn’t pulled the trigger. The team will need to give up Jonathan Sanchez or rookie Madison Bumgarner in order to get a bat of any value – it’s hard to get around that.

The only way they can get around not trading a pitcher is by going after free-agents Jermaine Dye or Carlos Delgado, but if you were Sabean, would you risk you job on picking up a player who hasn’t faced Major League pitching this season?  I wouldn’t.

The team could use another relief pitcher, but they need to work on a bat first and then they can concentrate on another arm.

Sellers:

Arizona Diamondbacks:
Dan Haren is the prize of the Dbacks, but they’ll want a boatload of prospects in order to get him.  The St. Louis Cardinals or the Philadelphia Phillies would love to have him, but with the instability of the Dback’s GM position, the team may not want to move their biggest named player unless they are overwhelmed with an offer.

The Diamondbacks also have relief pitcher Chad Qualls available. The 31-year-old is 1-4 with 12 saves and a 8.60 ERA. He has a WHIP of 2.110, but he does have 9.2 SO/9 ratio.

Others that could be available include Chris Snyder, Stephen Drew, Adam LaRoche, and Aaron Heilman