ARLINGTON, Texas -- Blake Swihart's focus is 100 percent with the Boston Red Sox right now.

"This is my team here," he said at Globe Life Park today, one day after catching for the first time in a game this season. "Anything I can do to help this team win right now is what I want to do. "

But he also realizes he could be on another team within the next month. Dustin Pedroia is making progress in Fort Myers as he returns from knee surgery. Pedroia's goal is to return to the Red Sox this month.

Swihart has started only three games, all at DH. He started yesterday and then moved to catcher for the ninth inning.

"There's a lot of moving parts that are going to happen here in the next couple weeks," Swihart told MassLive.com. "And it's not my job to make those trades or to do all that. My job is to go out there and play. And whatever happens, happens. Right now I'm part of this team so that's where my focus is.

"I know that something's got to happen," he added. "I don't know what that move could be. But I know something's got to happen."

He obviously understands he could be the one traded. Red Sox manager Alex Cora reiterated Wednesday he has no plans to go with Swihart over either Christian Vazquez or Sandy Leon.

"It's always been a possibility," Swihart said about a trade.

Swihart said he has been involved in trade rumors since Day One when he signed.

"I've just gotta go out there and keep my head up and keep doing what I'm doing and whatever happens in the next month or two is going to happen," he said.

He hasn't inquired to any front office members or Cora about whether he could be traded. He has had no conversations about trades with them.



"I haven't had any conversations like that," Swihart said. "The conversations I've had with like Cora, (assistant hitting coach) Andy (Barkett) or (hitting coach) Tim (Hyers), it's about the situation I'm in right now and how they went through it. I feel like I'm doing a good job of staying prepared."

He loves it here in Boston here but he also doesn't want to keep sitting.

"I mean, I don't want to sit the bench. I want to play. So it is what it is," Swihart said. "It's my situation right now and I've just got to live with it and make sure I'm prepared.

"I think that's every player," Swihart added. "That's every big league player. That's every player in Triple A, Double A. You want to play every day. And I feel like I can."

Swihart said he has maintained "a good relationship" with Cora.

"When I am playing, he lets me know the know the day before just so I can prepare and everything," he said. "I just go in there every day as try to get better: do something to get better."

He catches a bullpen and works on drills typically every other day. He's confidence in his catching ability.

"Yesterday when I went in that last inning, I felt pretty good," Swihart said. "Looking at video, talking with everybody."

He spoke with Jason Varitek, catching coordinator Chad Epperson and bullpen catcher Mike Brenly.

"They said I looked really good and I was where I wanted to be," Swihart said. "So I felt good."