Before the sports world came to a grinding halt, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Minor League Baseball were working on negotiating the next Professional Baseball Agreement, or PBA. This agreement governs the relationship between MiLB and MLB, and deals with the number of affiliated minor league teams, among other things.
Reports had surfaced quite a while ago that MLB was looking to downsize the number of affiliates, cutting some 42 franchises from across minor league baseball, including most of the teams in the Rookie-level Appalachian and Pioneer Leagues, as well as the New York-Penn League.
For the Milwaukee Brewers, only one affiliate was on the initial chopping block, and that was the Rookie-Level Rocky Mountain Vibes of the Pioneer League.