Milwaukee Brewers

The landscape of the MLB pennant races took on some major changes through the Fourth of July weekend, highlighted by a blockbuster trade by the Brewers for C.C. Sabathia — proving that the new currency in big league baseball is the farm system, not dollars.

With Cubs homer Joe Aiello out of the picture on the Thursday show, host Brandon Rosage takes his shot at both questions following a pitiful Tigers loss in Kansas City and a fourth shutout loss by San Diego — this time at the hands of Cubs starter Ryan Dempster.

It appears that Eric Gagne listens to “The Pitch” because he’s given up on the idea of his Brewers having a closer, too. Instead, his Milwaukee club will go to a bullpen-by-committee approach to closing games — something The Pitch community emphatically approves on the Monday edition of t...