The Nashville Sounds will have a new Major League parent club in 2015.According to multiple reports, the Sounds informed the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday that they decided not to extend their affiliation agreement, which had been in place for 10 years.Reports throughout the summer said the Sounds planned to become the AAA affiliate of the Oakland A's.

"As a Minor League Baseball affiliate, we have very strict rules as set forth by Major League Baseball when it comes to investigating the possibility of reaffiliation," Nashville Sounds owner Frank Ward said in an e-mail to MLB.com. "We followed those to the end. Within those parameters, we informed the Brewers that we would explore the opportunity to look at our options at the appropriate time. When it came time for us to have the opportunity to talk to other teams, we decided to do what we felt was best for our franchise and for the city of Nashville with respect to winning baseball."

The decision did not sit well with Brewers officials, who said they expect to settle on a new Class AAA affiliate within a week to 10 days. The most likely candidates are either Fresno, California, or Colorado Springs, Colorado.More from MLB.com:

"Very disappointing," Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin said. "We gave them 10 years there. A number of times we had a chance to move and we were patient with them. ... I'm just disappointed they wouldn't have given us two [more] years for what we put up with there."

Melvin and the Brewers, of course, 'put up' with the situation at Greer Stadium, an outdated, 37-year-old facility that will replaced next season. Melvin, in fact, participated in the First Tennessee Park groundbreaking.The Sounds finished the 2014 season with the best home record in the Pacific Coast League.

"From my end of it, from the general manager, the assistant, the people there we worked with every day, they were very happy with it," Sounds manager Rick Sweet said. "We gave them a good club. We played very well at home. Community service, we went overboard. Never had any complaints."