Baseball Lives Here. It Just Got a Little Weirder.
There’s baseball... and then there’s swamp baseball.
The Mississippi Mud Monsters are a professional baseball team in Pearl, Mississippi, built around real baseball, community energy, and just enough weird to make Trustmark Park feel like its own little world.
Who We Are
A new team with deep roots, a strange name, and a ballpark that never stopped feeling like home.
The Team
The Mississippi Mud Monsters are a professional baseball team based in Pearl, Mississippi, competing in the Frontier League as a member of the West Division in the Midwest Conference.
We joined the league as an expansion team ahead of the 2025 season, but professional baseball in Pearl never skipped a beat. With the Mud Monsters, the streak rolled into a 21st straight year - just with a few more whiskers, teeth, and weird little surprises along the way.
The Ballpark
Trustmark Park
Pearl, Mississippi
Capacity: 8,480 people... and one suspicious ripple in the outfield pond.
Trustmark Park has been the beating heart of baseball in Central Mississippi since 2005. Now it’s the Monster’s lair - refreshed with new signage, new paint, and new life, while keeping that unmistakable summertime feeling that makes a night at the ballpark feel like home.
Built for Pearl
When one chapter of baseball in Pearl ended, another one started almost immediately.
The Mud Monsters were created to be more than a replacement. They were built to be a reinvention - a team with its own voice, its own colors, its own mascot, and its own reason to exist.
Our Story
It all started on September 9, 2024.
That’s when the Frontier League announced that Pearl would be getting an expansion franchise, right after the Atlanta Braves’ Double-A affiliate revealed they’d be relocating to Columbus, Georgia. What could have felt like the end of something became the beginning of something new.
From day one, this team was built for Pearl. Led by owner Joseph Eng, General Manager Andrew Seymour, and Assistant GM David Kerr, the Mud Monsters were created to be more than a replacement. They were built to be a reinvention.
At first, the team was known only as On Deck 2025, a placeholder while fans helped shape the identity. Between September 9 and September 26, 2024, more than 5,600 people voted in the “Name the Team” contest. The final three were Mississippi Mud Monsters, Mississippi Grits, and Mississippi Soul Shakers.
On September 27, the people spoke. And the swamp answered.
The Mississippi Mud Monsters were officially born. The name, the teal and aquamarine color palette, and the logo revealed on October 10, 2024 all sent the same message: this was going to be something fun, something campy, something unmistakably Mississippi, and something entirely its own.
Sept. 9, 2024
Pearl is announced as a Frontier League expansion market.
Sept. 9-26
More than 5,600 fans vote in the Name the Team contest.
Sept. 27
The Mississippi Mud Monsters name is officially selected.
Oct. 10
The colors, logo, and identity are revealed.
From On Deck to Opening Day
The Mud Monsters did not just appear out of the water one afternoon. Well... maybe Fish did. But the team has been built piece by piece, announcement by announcement, season by season.
The Announcement
Owner Joe Eng speaks at the On Deck 2025 announcement, as Pearl prepared for a new professional baseball chapter.
The Room Was Watching
Media, community leaders, and baseball fans gathered as the future of Trustmark Park started to take shape.
The Reveal
The name, colors, and logo gave the new team its personality - strange, bold, and all its own.
The Ribbon Cutting
General Manager Andrew Seymour speaks as the ballpark officially steps into its Mud Monsters era.
Opening Day
Fish and Joe Eng on the first Opening Day, when the idea finally became a ballgame.
Monsters Alley
The street renaming ceremony gave the new identity a permanent place outside the ballpark gates.
The Story Travels
After the inaugural season, Assistant GM David Kerr presented the Mud Monsters branding story at the Frontier League meetings in Ottawa.
The Ballpark Keeps Changing
Between year one and year two, artificial turf became one of the biggest visible upgrades at Trustmark Park - another sign that the Mud Monsters era is still being built.
Our Culture
We believe baseball should feel like something you get to be part of, not something you have to understand perfectly before you show up.
Unapologetically Fun
Baseball is serious enough on the field. Around it, we believe there is room for joy, noise, silliness, and surprise.
A Little Weird
The name is Mud Monsters. We know what we signed up for, and we are not running from it.
Wildly Welcoming
First game, hundredth game, die-hard fan, casual visitor, kid chasing a foul ball - there is room for you here.
Swamp-Built, Mississippi-Made
This is baseball that belongs to everyone. We’re not trying to copy the big leagues. We’re trying to create something you can’t find anywhere else.
That means a ballpark full of personality, a team rooted in this place, and a little bit of magic that only makes sense once you’ve been here.
Meet Fish
Mascot. Swamp dweller. Local cryptid. Best left slightly unexplained.
Fish is the spirit of the Mud Monsters - strange, slippery, full of attitude, and oddly lovable. He might show up in the stands, on the concourse, or in your nightmares, but like, in a fun way.
Nobody knows exactly where he came from, and honestly, nobody really wants to ask. He’s here. He’s ours. And he’s ready to make Pearl weird again.
Still Curious?
Then you’re one of us already.
Pull up a seat. Grab a souvenir. Eat something on a stick you probably shouldn’t. Keep one eye on the field and one eye on the swamp.
The Mississippi Mud Monsters are here. And we’ve got a ballgame to play.