San Diego Padres pitcher Phil Hughes is calling his former teammate, Derek Jeter, one of the pettiest gamblers and, apparently, a sore loser.
Hughes spent time with Jeter while both were members of the New York Yankees, and Hughes opened up about the now-retired Yankee captain’s gambling habits, during an appearance on on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast.
“He had this thing. He liked to do small little wagers every now and then. But he was such a competitor that if he lost, he would pay you pennies,” Hughes recalled.
“So it would be like a hundred bucks on something stupid like a college football game that’s going on or something. And if he lost, he would literally have a bag of pennies the next day. And it wasn’t like a dollar. It was a hundred bucks. It’s a lot of pennies.”
Hughes, who played with Jeter from 2007 to 2013, wining a World Series with him in 2009, said that Jeter “probably had to send someone to a bank and do a special request to pay you in pennies.”
Jeter is now part owner and CEO of the Miami Marlins.