They are located in Zebulon, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh, and play their home games at Five County Stadium.

[3] Following the 1990 season, team owner Steve Bryant relocated the club to the Raleigh suburb of Zebulon, where it continued in the Southern League as the Carolina Mudcats.

[5] The stadium was as close to Raleigh as it could get without infringing on the territorial rights of the then Class A (now Triple-A) Durham Bulls.

[10] The Southern League used a split-season schedule wherein the division winners from each half qualified for the postseason championship playoffs.

[17] Managed by Trent Jewett,[18] Carolina won both halves of the 1995 season, sending them back to the playoffs with a franchise-best 89–55 campaign.

[14][19] They won the Eastern Division title versus the Orlando Cubs, 3–2, before winning their first Southern League championship over the Chattanooga Lookouts, 3–2.

[17] The Mudcats qualified for the 1996 playoffs via a wild card berth but were eliminated in the Eastern Division series by the Jacksonville Suns, 3–2.

[25] The team returned to the playoffs with a wild card berth in 2005, but they were swept out of the division series, 3–0, by the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx.

[26] Carolina won the Second Half Northern Division title in 2008 and defeated West Tenn in a three-game sweep to advance to the Southern League finals.

[17] Center fielder Dave Sappelt, who had a league-leading .361 batting average, won the MVP Award in 2010.

[14] In December 2010, team owner Steve Bryant sold his Southern League franchise to businessman Quint Studer and his wife, Rishy, who planned to relocate the team to Pensacola, Florida, as the Pensacola Blue Wahoos in 2012.

[31] In a corresponding move, the Studers facilitated Bryant's purchase of the Kinston Indians of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League.

[32][33] Upon joining the Carolina League in 2012, the Mudcats became the Class A-Advanced affiliate of the Cleveland Indians in a continuation of their previous relationship with Kinston.

[34] Carolina posted losing records in each season of the three-year run with Cleveland without qualifying for the playoffs.

[35] In October 2017, team owner Steve Bryant sold his majority interest in the Mudcats to the Brewers.

[40] Starter Noah Zavolas won the Pitcher of the Year Award; he held a league-best 1.14 WHIP at the time.

[43] Carolina began competition in the new league on May 4 with a 6–5 victory over the Fayetteville Woodpeckers at Five County Stadium.

[52] The Mudcats won the first-half of the 2024 season with a 41–24 mark, clinching a spot in the playoffs,[53] but they were defeated in the division series by the Fredericksburg Nationals, 2–0.

[58] The moniker refers to retired military aircraft that have been restored as well as to Wilson being the location of a naval aviation training center during World War II.