Then there were five.

Five unique, maybe strange-sounding baseball nicknames for the new minor league team that will begin play in Madison in 2020.

BallCorps Inc., the owners of the Mobile BayBears who will move the team to north Alabama after the 2019 season, released the top five nicknames based on fan voting on Friday morning. Click here to vote for your favorite nickname among the top five.

So which of the goofy suggestions made by the community did you like best? Here they are in alphabetical order with the brief story behind the team as provided by the team:

Comet Jockeys:

Moon Possums:

Space Chimps:

ThunderSharks:

Trash Pandas (Slang for raccoon):

From that list will come the nickname of the new Madison team.

In Friday's announcement, the team did not reveal the voting results, saying only that those five nicknames received the most support. More than 15,000 votes were cast online in the name-the-team contest, the team said.

The team will announce the nickname at a community event on Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. at Rocket Republic Brewing Company at 289 Production Avenue in Madison.

And in case you were wondering, here are the nicknames that didn't make the cut:

Army Ants: