Closing out August, and adding a day to the "week", we have four rookie pitchers who debuted in the final week of August.
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Armando Gabino -
threw some long reliefmade a brief start and was sent back down*
- Daniel McCutchen - snuck in on the 31st with a start
- Pedro Strop - hard thrower with two relief appearances
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Wilton Lopez - three home runs in a four inning relief debut
Here's what they've thrown so far, with the best pitch classifications I can muster with limited samples.
| Rookie | Pitch | # | vs LHH | vs RHH | MPH | PFX_X | PFX_Z |
| Armando Gabino | Change | 9 | 8 | 1 | 83.6 | -7.6 | 6.7 |
| Armando Gabino | Sinker | 14 | 11 | 3 | 92.1 | -8.4 | 5.4 |
| Armando Gabino | Fastball | 23 | 18 | 5 | 92.1 | -6.3 | 8.4 |
| Armando Gabino | Slider | 11 | 3 | 8 | 85.3 | 1.3 | 3.4 |
| Daniel McCutchen | Change | 32 | 10 | 22 | 82.7 | -5.6 | 4.7 |
| Daniel McCutchen | Curveball | 4 | 0 | 4 | 75.5 | 3.0 | -0.8 |
| Daniel McCutchen | Fastball | 59 | 15 | 44 | 91.9 | -5.5 | 10.6 |
| Daniel McCutchen | Slider | 6 | 0 | 6 | 82.6 | 1.8 | 2.9 |
| Pedro Strop | Fastball | 38 | 15 | 23 | 95.0 | -3.0 | 10.5 |
| Pedro Strop | Splitter | 6 | 3 | 3 | 85.4 | -3.2 | 1.2 |
| Pedro Strop | Slider | 9 | 5 | 4 | 84.2 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
| Wilton Lopez | Sinker | 39 | 30 | 9 | 91.2 | -7.8 | 3.5 |
| Wilton Lopez | Fastball | 23 | 4 | 19 | 92.6 | -3.9 | 7.6 |
| Wilton Lopez | Splitter | 10 | 9 | 1 | 82.1 | -5.0 | 2.4 |
| Wilton Lopez | Slider | 20 | 5 | 15 | 82.6 | 2.6 | 0.9 |
September should be busy, with lots of call-ups. Once the season is over, I'll recap all the rookies and even the position players.
*corrected thanks to a reader comment