Fayetteville Woodpeckers

Minor league baseball wraps up

September 24, 2024 Shawn Krest

Durham Bulls The Bulls opened the Triple-A season with one of the top minor league prospects in baseball, in Junior Caminero. The perennial championship contenders struggled, however. Caminero missed extended time with an injury, then […]

Rhett Lowder heads to Futures Game

July 12, 2024 Shawn Krest

The MLB All-Star Break will get started with the All-Star Futures Game on Saturday, in Arlington, Texas. The annual contest gives fans a look at tomorrow’s stars, bringing together the top minor league prospects in […]

Leaders, prospects on NC’s minor league rosters

July 5, 2023 Shawn Krest

There’s still hope! The minor leagues have been undergoing substantial change over the last few seasons. Several teams were eliminated during the pandemic, and the remaining minor league franchises were reshuffled into new leagues. The […]

Take me out to the ballgame: Minor league seasons start across NC

April 5, 2023 Shawn Krest

Baseball season returned to North Carolina with the state’s two Triple-A teams starting play last weekend. The state’s eight Class-A teams take the field this week as some of baseball’s top prospects will get some […]

The Big Dumper leads NC’s representation in MLB postseason

October 12, 2022 Shawn Krest

October is famous for crowning new cult heroes during baseball’s postseason, and this year has already found a prime candidate to join them: The Big Dumper. Cal Raleigh’s nickname — which celebrates the Seattle catcher’s […]

Best of the best: What makes NC’s 10 MiLB teams special

August 3, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Read NSJ’s 2022 MiLB Across NC features: Carolina Mudcats • Down East Wood Ducks • Winston-Salem Dash • Kannapolis Cannon Ballers • Greensboro Grasshoppers • Fayetteville Woodpeckers • Charlotte Knights • Durham Bulls • Hickory […]

Woodpeckers tapping into Fayetteville’s baseball potential

June 22, 2022 Brett Friedlander

FAYETTEVILLE — On March 7, 1914, a raw rookie by the name of George Herman Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville while playing in a spring exhibition game for the then-minor league Baltimore […]

Minor league baseball teams around North Carolina start season

April 6, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Opening day of the 2022 Major League Baseball season has been pushed back two weeks because of the labor dispute that delayed the start of spring training. But baseball fans, especially those in North Carolina, […]

MLB playoff contenders built from NC minor leagues

October 6, 2021 Shawn Krest

The MLB playoffs open this week, and the Durham Bulls and Charlotte Knights will battle for the chance to win the World Series. Not the current editions of the Bulls and Knights, of course, but […]

Woodpeckers, drilled by pandemic, return

May 19, 2021 Brett Friedlander

FAYETTEVILLE — A cheer went up when the gates to Segra Stadium opened about an hour before the Fayetteville Woodpeckers took on the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in their first home game in more than a […]