CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP)—Dallas Green, returning to the place where it all began, wants it known he’d like to get back into baseball.

Green quit Oct. 29 after six years as general manager and president of the Chicago Cubs. Green insists that he’s not advertising for a job, or actively seeking one.

“I’m just refreshing minds that I’m out of work,” said Green, who began his major league baseball career as a pitcher in the Clearwater spring training camp of the Philadelphia Phillies.

“I’ve been in the game 33 years. I’m itchy,” he confided.

Green was at Jack Russell Stadium Sunday to watch the Phillies in an exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

“Just say I’m here,” Green said. “I’m only 53-years-old and I don’t want people to get the idea that I’m hanging it up. I don’t want to lose the game.

“I don’t want people to think I’m a vulture, want to take somebody’s job. I just have to let people realize that I’m available if something opens.”

“I have no driving goals to accomplish,” Green said. “I’d just like to finish what’s left of my baseball career. A lot of people know the things I can do.”

He’ll head home to Pennsylvania shortly to “get on my tractor and wait and see what happens.”

Green said he’d consider returning as a field manager.

“I get nervous when I think about it. But I think I’d say yes in the right situation. It would have to be an ownership with a general manager commited to do a job. I’m a hard driver committed to winning.”