When one baseball door closed for Bryce Arnold, he joined the Welland Jackfish in an attempt to open another.
The 24-year-old Grimsby native signed with the Jackfish this season after three years in the Toronto Blue Jays’ organization where he advanced as high as AAA, playing three games for the Buffalo Bisons in 2024.
But after being released in 2025 by the Jays and then later following a brief tenure in Cleveland’s organization, Arnold made the decision to retire and look forward to the next chapter.
“It wasn’t obviously easy, but again, knowing the coaching staff here, being around home, it was kind of like shifting my career towards what I kind of want to do down the road in the future,” Arnold said. “I’m able to still play baseball at a good level, be around home, be around family. They can come to watch me at pretty much every game and also just start kind of like my coaching journey is something that I’m looking into doing in the near future.”
Arnold, who graduated from Blessed Trinity in Grimsby before spending three years at Campbell University, a Division 1 school in the Coastal Athletic Association in North Carolina, is already coaching with the Fieldhouse Pirates in Burlington and plans to offer private lessons.
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