The Boston Red Sox may look to add pitching before the non-waiver trade deadline, but teams will have to begin selling in order to make a deal happen.

"We'll see. This is the time where you're looking -- nobody's got a perfect club," Dave Dombrowski said. "We have a good club, nobody has a perfect club. We all have eyes on particular things you may look to do to improve your team and we'll be like that too."

There are still a number of teams in striking distance of contention, which limits the number of sellers on the market.

"I think there’s an uptick on conversations that take place," Dombrowski said. "But a lot of times the conversations now are just as much an informational, feeling out (type). And I think it's also a situation where a lot of clubs really haven’t decided what they're going to do yet. ... There's a handful of clubs where almost from day one of the season are already looking toward 2017. And some of those clubs have already traded some of their players. Those handful of clubs really haven't changed a great deal.

"I have a sense that even though you may look at the standings and say, 'Well, this club will probably look towards next year,' there’s not a great number of those at this time. ... We get toward the All-Star break and you’re almost forced to make decisions. And clubs like to, as much as they can, put that off as far as possible.

"It’s important for us to stay in contact with those organizations so we know when they shift their focus."