"Adding Cliff Lee at the trade deadline was the move of the year last season, and the Rangers were able to reach the World Series because of that trade.

Could Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez be this year's Lee? And could the Rangers be the team that benefits for a second consecutive season?

Along with the Rangers, the New York Yankees , Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds have been mentioned as teams interested in the right-handed starting pitcher who won 19 games last season.

"They've all been mentioned as possible suitors for the hard-throwing ace, who has the brilliance, if not the polish, to match Lee as a top-shelf type who would command a boatload of prospects in return," MLB .com's Doug Miller wrote Monday. "The difference is that Jimenez is not sitting on a free-agent year. None of the other starting pitchers being bandied about have the marquee sizzle of Lee, but Jimenez is probably the closest thing.""