LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers have fired former first baseman Steve Garvey from their marketing and community-relations departments, Garvey confirmed to 710 ESPN Radio on Friday.

The move appears to be a reaction to Garvey having made public his desire to be part of a group that would purchase the club if owner Frank McCourt, who has filed for bankruptcy, is ultimately forced to sell the Dodgers.

"I was always clear with management as to the exploratory ownership group I've put together," Garvey said Friday night in an emailed statement. "In fact, I twice offered a significant cash infusion to help the team.

"I met with team officials on multiple occasions, and was given parameters of what was appropriate for me to say regarding my investment group. I feel I stayed within those parameters."

On Saturday, Garvey was still unsure about what prompted the firing.

"I don't know," he said on 710 ESPN. "Maybe the response of the fans and maybe it irritated someone.

"(I) got a call from the Dodger attorney, and I knew pretty much what he was going to say, I've known him for 30 years, and he said I was being terminated. The Dodgers leaked it to sources, I wasn't even going to say anything."

As a player, Garvey is counted among the team's long list of legends, having been a power-hitting fixture in the Dodgers lineup from 1969 to 1982 before leaving as a free agent and signing with the San Diego Padres.

"If management doesn't want me to be an employee, I can respect that," Garvey said. "But no one can take away the fact that I am and always will be a Dodger."

Josh Rawitch, the team's vice president for communications, declined to address the matter, saying Dodgers policy is to not comment on personnel matters.

Garvey told The Associated Press last month that he's been pursuing a sports franchise for two years now, and has considered minor league clubs and professional soccer teams.

Garvey told the Los Angeles Times in April that he had joined with local billionaire Ron Burkle to form an investment group to buy the club, an interview that took place around the time Major League Baseball was announcing its intention to appoint a monitor to oversee the Dodgers' finances and months before the team filed for bankruptcy.

He said last month former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser had joined forces with him under the banner of the Garvey-Hershiser Group. Hershiser works for ESPN as a game analyst and isn't a part of the Dodgers community relations department.

Garvey told 710 ESPN that he harbors no ill will toward Frank and Jamie McCourt.

"No I don't because I've been through divorce," he said. "And divorce is pretty devastating for Frank and Jamie McCourt. I know my wife, Candace and I, and other families ... feel bad about what has transpired over the last couple of years."

The 62-year-old Garvey has had his own financial problems, declaring himself broke after a series of sex scandals in the 1980s that tarnished his reputation as "Mr. Clean," a nickname he earned during his playing career for his squeaky clean image.