The Florence Freedom professional baseball team is now a thing of the past.

You can now call them the Y'alls.

“It’s a very exciting time in our organization’s history,” Y’alls Vice President and GM Josh Anderson said. “We have a name that is uniquely Florence, and on a larger scale uniquely Kentucky."

The new team name was announced during a 6:30 p.m. meeting at the Florence City Government building.

The Florence City Council approved the name during the meeting.

"We think this is an incredible part of our culture and we want to tell that story," said Jay Becker, owner of BLDG, the design firm that helped rebrand the team.

The new announcement came with new team colors of red, white and sky-blue along with a new team tagline, "Y'all or nothing."

The team is part of the Frontier League, an independent minor league not affiliated with Major League baseball. Players are mostly just out of college or spent some time in the lower levels of minor-league baseball. The Freedom had several players signed by MLB organizations during the 2019 season because of their performance with the team.

The team announced in October that the Freedom name would go away. Submissions were taken until Oct. 16.

On Nov. 27, the team announced five top contenders:

The Go-Goettas

The Fossil Jockeys

The Y'alls

The Pop Flies

The No Sox

The website for the team now redirects to florenceyalls.com. It includes the new colors and branding for the team.

The first game of the regular season for the Y'alls is on May 14 against the New Jersey Jackals.