VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Jose Canseco can now focus on being an actor or an author rather than a baseball player.

As expected, the Los Angeles Dodgers informed the former slugger Tuesday that they weren't interested in his services.

Canseco, 39, participated in an open tryout with the team Monday. He said he wouldn't play in the minors, which probably ended any chance he had of being signed by the Dodgers.

Matt Slater, the team's director of professional scouting, said a couple of players who participated in the workout will be offered contracts -- but Canseco wouldn't be one of them.

"We called him to give him the news," Slater said.

Canseco was told beforehand there was a 99 percent chance the Dodgers wouldn't sign him, but he participated anyway.

He certainly didn't look prepared.

"This is probably going to be my last attempt -- see you in the movies," Canseco told reporters as he signed autographs.