The Down East Wood Ducks are a Minor League Baseball team of the Carolina League and the owned-and-operated Single-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. They are located in Kinston, North Carolina, and are named for the wood duck, a colorful local waterfowl. Established in 2017, the team plays its home games at Grainger Stadium, which opened in 1949 and holds 4,100 people.
The Rangers signed a 12-year contract with the city to provide a team to play at Grainger Stadium beginning with the 2017 season. They were members of the Carolina League from 2017 to 2020. With the 2021 restructuring of the minor leagues, the Wood Ducks were placed in the Low-A East, though this was renamed the Carolina League and reclassified as Single-A in 2022. Their lone Carolina League title was won in 2017.
Kinston has hosted farm clubs for 11 different major league franchises and one minor league club in its history. Professional baseball in Kinston dates back to a 1908 squad in the Eastern Carolina League.
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The DownEastWoodDucks are a Minor League Baseball team of the Carolina League and the owned-and-operated Single-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. They...
Rangers for Luke Jackson. In 2017, he began the season with the DownEastWoodDucks and was later promoted to the Frisco RoughRiders, posting a combined...
23, 2023). "Kinston losing baseball again: Texas Rangers to sell DownEastWoodDucks". Sun Journal. New Bern, North Carolina. Retrieved September 2, 2023...
top 500 prospects. Carter spent the 2021 season with the DownEastWoodDucks of the Low-A East, hitting .236/.438/.387/.825 with 2 home runs, 12 RBI, and...
ballpark for the DownEastWoodDucks, which joined the Carolina League starting in the 2017 season, and was placed in the Low-A East for only the 2021...
COVID-19 pandemic. Englert spent the 2021 season with the DownEastWoodDucks of the Low-A East, going 6–3 with a 4.25 ERA and 90 strikeouts over 80+2⁄3...
being shut down and having surgery to alleviate Thoracic outlet syndrome on August 25, 2021. He spent the 2022 season with the DownEastWoodDucks of the...
the Hickory Crawdads of the Single–A South Atlantic League and the DownEastWoodDucks of the High–A Carolina League, going a combined 7–1 with 1.62 ERA...
strikeouts, and 12 saves in 28+1⁄3 innings. Clase was assigned to the DownEastWoodDucks of the High–A Carolina League to open the 2019 season. He appeared...
47+1⁄3 innings. He split 2017 between the Hickory Crawdads and the DownEastWoodDucks, posting a combined 9–6 record with a 2.64 ERA over 126 innings between...
operations at the end of the 2016 season. These additional teams were the DownEastWoodDucks in Kinston, North Carolina, and the Buies Creek Astros in Buies Creek...
runs and 43 RBI over 80 games for Hickory. He was promoted to the DownEastWoodDucks of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League on July 17. He produced a...
runs and 53 RBI in 115 games. Tejeda spent the 2018 season with the DownEastWoodDucks of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, hitting .259/.331/.439/...
The stadium is being built primarily for the relocated and renamed DownEastWoodDucks of the Carolina League, but it is also intended to host other sports...
Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League. Barlow was assigned to the DownEastWoodDucks of the High-A Carolina League to open the 2019 season. He went 4–0...
batters in six innings pitched. Bratt spent the 2022 season with the DownEastWoodDucks of the Low-A Carolina League, going 5–5 with a 2.45 ERA and 99 strikeouts...
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