Fayetteville Woodpeckers

• Location: Fayetteville, NC
• League: Carolina League 2019; Low-A East 2021; Carolina League 2022-
• Affiliation: Houston Astros 2019-present
• Ballpark: Segra Stadium

Team History

The Fayetteville Woodpeckers, of the Carolina League and briefly in Low-A East, are on their second level, league and name - and third stadium - since 2016. The Houston Astros farmhands play their home games at Segra Stadium in Fayetteville, NC.

The Woodpeckers are owned by their parent club. Seeking escape for their prospects from a windy, pitcher-killing ballpark, the Texas Rangers engineered moving two teams from the California League to the Carolina in 2017. They bought their High Desert Mavericks affiliate, which played in the wind tunnel of a ballpark, to be one of the teams. Concurrently, the Astros bought the Bakersfield Blaze - whose playpen, Sam Lynn Ballpark, had is own set of problems - to be the necessary other partner in the dance as leagues that play nearly every day in series need an even number of teams.

The club played its first two seasons as the Buies Creek Astros, in a rented college park while Fayetteville built a stadium. Their colors match the bird's - and also the U.S. Army Special Operations Command's. A temporary stadium at Fort Bragg, NC, hosted a July 3, 2016, salute to the military; the Fort Bragg Game was the first MLB game ever played in North Carolina - a state full of minor league clubs.

MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization lowered the Woodpeckers one level.

They play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign games as Guerreros de Fayetteville (Fayetteville Warriors).

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Hitting coach	Pitching coach	Coach
2019	72-67	4th	Nate Shaver	Lost League Finals	Jason Kanzler	Thomas Whitsett
2020	Season cancelled
2021	55-65	8th	Ray Hernandez		Sean Godfrey	Todd Naskedov	Dickie Joe Thon
2022	55-75	10th	Dickie Joe Thon		Jose Puentes	John Kovalik	Vincent Blue
2023	60-72	10th	Ricky Rivera		Luis Reynoso	Zach Wilkins	Dylan Mazzo
2024			Ricky Rivera		Andrew Cresci	Zach Wilkins	Jeff Calhoon