Carolina Mudcats
minor league baseball team based in Zebulon, North Carolina
The Carolina Mudcats were a Minor League Baseball team that played in Zebulon, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh, from 1991 to 2025. They played their home games at Five County Stadium for all 35 seasons after playing part of their inaugural season at Fleming Stadium. "Mudcats" is a Southern synonym for catfish.
The team began play in 1991 after the Columbus Mudcats relocated from Columbus, Georgia. They were members of the Double-A Southern League through 2011. The Mudcats were replaced by a Class A-Advanced team of the Carolina League in 2012. This team carried on as an extension of the previous club. In conjunction with Major League Baseball's reorganization of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Mudcats were dropped to the Low-A classification and placed in the Low-A East, which became the Single-A Carolina League in 2022. They played in Zebulon for 35 seasons until relocating to Wilson, North Carolina, as the Wilson Warbirds, after the 2025 campaign.
The Mudcats won the Southern League championship in 1995 as the Double-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates and in 2003 as the Double-A affiliate of the Florida Marlins.
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