Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter confirmed to multiple media outlets including The Associated Press that Hall of Famer and former Cincinnati Reds great Tony Perez, former Reds manager Jack McKeon, Jeff Conine and Andre Dawson all turned down the chance to stay with the team in reduced roles with lower salaries.

Last month, Jeter told McKeon there's no spot for him with the team, according to a report by FanRag Sports' Jon Heyman, and Heyman said a recent meeting with Perez left the former Big Red Machine great with a bad taste in his mouth.

From Heyman:

First told they were being let go by the new Derek Jeter regime (club president David Samson actually made the initial call), they were at first heartened to receive calls from Jeter letting them know he never intended to fire them and would find roles for all of them. However, a couple weeks after that encouraging call, three of them received an update: They could stay in reduced roles, at reduced salaries. Plus, in at least a couple cases, it wasn’t mentioned how reduced their roles would be. Or how reduced their pay might be (though one person thought the cut would be drastic, from about the $100,000 range to less than half that). The fourth, the octogenarian McKeon, was called recently and told they didn’t have a spot for him.

Last month, Heyman reported that Jeter reached out to all four team executives to inform them he was interested in retaining them after reportedly wanting in September to have them fired.

The 86-year-old McKeon managed the Marlins from 2003 to 2005 and again in 2011 after managing the Reds from 1997 to 2000. He helped the Marlins to a World Series title in 2003 and was National League Manager of the Year once with the Reds (in 1999) and once with the Marlins (in 2003).

Perez, a Hall of Fame infielder for the Reds from 1964 to 1976 and again from 1984 to 1986, joined the Marlins in 1993, shortly after a brief stint as the Reds' manager, and served as a special assistant to the general manager before becoming a special assistant to the team president. He managed the Marlins in 2001.

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