Overview
- Multiple Mets staff and media outlets confirmed late Tuesday that Guy Conti passed away on Oct. 13, 2026 after a lengthy illness.
- Conti worked in pro baseball for decades with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets, serving as the Mets’ bullpen coach from 2005–08 and later as a minor‑league adviser and spring‑training coordinator.
- He scouted a young Pedro Martínez in the Dominican Republic, taught him a split‑fingered changeup that became central to his career and helped Martínez learn English, earning the coach the nickname “white daddy.”
- Conti cultivated long personal ties across the game, including a friendship with Sandy Koufax that brought Koufax to Mets spring training as a guest instructor.
- Before MLB, Conti coached multiple sports at the high‑school and college level, was inducted into Edinboro’s Hall of Fame in 1997, and is being remembered for the quiet, long‑term work that develops major‑league talent.