FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Like many fans at Hammond Stadium, Paul Molitor was just relieved to escape the relentless Minnesota winter when he and his 12-year-old son, Ben, returned to the Twins' facility on Monday to take in a victory over the Red Sox.

"I picked a bad year to get fired," Molitor joked. "It was a rough winter."

Though Molitor took time to speak with his successor, Rocco Baldelli, the old Twins skipper wasn't in Fort Myers in any official capacity, and said he is looking forward to taking a short break from baseball after he was relieved of his duties last October.

But Molitor, a native of St. Paul, Minn., said that he's not yet ready to be completely done with the game. Though he feels that his time as a manager is realistically at an end given the sport's evolution, he would eventually like to return to the game in another role after he enjoys a summer away from the baseball grind.

"I’m not quite ready to be done done," Molitor said. "I'll be 63 this summer, and I still feel that there’s ways that I can contribute, although the game, as we all know, has changed in a lot of different ways."

Molitor has continued to follow the Twins' developments throughout the offseason, especially given his friendships and relationships throughout the clubhouse, and said that he and Twins leadership have loosely engaged in multiple conversations about his possible future with the organization. He said that owner Jim Pohlad, chief baseball officer Derek Falvey and general manager Thad Levine have all been open-minded about the idea.

"I don't think we've really tried to define anything," Molitor said. "Where that goes, whether it's throughout the course of this summer or into next fall, I couldn't tell you the schedule on that and how we might proceed. I'm open about it and they're open about it. That's a good thing."

Molitor, who was let go after a 78-84 season and second-place finish in the American League Central in 2018, said he understood the Twins' decision to move on and doesn't harbor negative feelings. Despite the disappointment of the season (after the Twins made it to the AL Wild Card game in '17), Molitor was proud of his team's attitude through the end of the year, especially after Minnesota traded away most of its major pieces at last season's Trade Deadline.

Molitor has now had time to adjust to life after the Twins and said that he is impressed with Baldelli.

"I would not say it’s been hard," Molitor said. "It’s a change. But I’ve had since the end of September, early October, to settle into the mindset that this was not going to be a spring where I was going to have a hand on this team."

Baldelli would also welcome a Twins reunion with his predecessor.

"I thought it was great that he was here," Baldelli said. "Paul means an incredible amount to this organization, and to the area, and my conversations with him have been phenomenal. He's a great baseball man. Truthfully, at some point, I think it would be great if he were part of the Twins organization again in almost any fashion that he would like to take part in. I mean that."