Former Marlins executive David Samson had some harsh words about Derek Jeter’s baseball management acumen.

Samson, 55, now a podcaster at Dan Le Batard and John Skipper’s Meadowlark Media, did an interview with Front Office Sports in which he was very critical of Jeter’s tenure as minority owner and CEO of the Marlins.

“[Jeter] was able to bring in all his own people and he thought that everything that I did was bad,” Samson said. “So he erased anything I had done. And figured he could do [George] Costanza, which is opposite day. Anything I did, he did the opposite and assumed it would work.

“He assumed that he could get a bigger TV deal. He assumed he could get a big naming rights deal, that he’d get tons of season-ticket holders, that he would make the team a winning team. And after four years, I think he realized that being a shortstop and being an executive are two totally different things. … And I think he realized quickly that being a pitchman for Subway was probably going to be more up his alley than running the team every day and being accountable for that.”

Jeter, the legendary Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop who won five World Series in pinstripes, had a tenure with the Marlins that lasted from 2017 to 2022.

Samson revealed that he would’ve stayed on to work for Jeter, who has recently starred in multiple Subway commercials, but learned he got fired via an ESPN news alert.

“After the team was sold to Derek Jeter, I would have stayed on, I had a contract to stay on,” Samson said. “I got a text alert from ESPN.com that I’d been fired. I called Derek and said, ‘Hey, I just got an alert. Am I actually fired?’ He said, ‘Oh yeah, I didn’t get to you. I’m sorry.’”

Samson was the stepson of Jeffrey Loria and worked as an executive under Loria with the Expos organization and then later with the Marlins.

He had derisive remarks for why Jeter was a “perfect” member of the Marlins ownership group.

“Derek Jeter was the perfect person to buy a team because he didn’t use his money,” Samson said. “And he had someone in the name of Bruce Sherman who let him do anything he wanted with absolutely no accountability. And if you can get that kind of job, you might as well go get it.”

Fox Sports recently announced that Jeter is joining the network as a studio analyst.