Should the New York Yankees need to add a relief pitcher later this season, Alex Mauricio would be glad to oblige.

The former Manchester High and Norfolk State right-hander is now on the roster of the Triple-A International League’s Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. That means he’s one step from the Yankee Stadium bullpen.

In his first 14 outings for the RailRiders, Mauricio had 28 strikeouts in 25 1/3 innings and a 1.07 ERA.

He suffered a minor setback on May 31 when he was placed on the seven-dayinjured list. He should return to the team’s bullpen by mid-June.

Mauricio starred as a pitcher and hitter at Norfolk State and was the 2017 MEAC Player of the Year. His older brother Jonathan also played for Manchester and Norfolk State.

Even as a pro, he is listed as a “pitcher/shortstop/third baseman” by Baseball Reference even though he has not hit or played a position other than pitcher in the pros.

The 6-foot, 180-pound athlete has played on the Yankees’ Gulf Coast Rookie team, and for Charleston, W.Va., Staten Island, N.Y., Hudson Valley, N.Y. and Somerset, N.J., climbing the organization’s farm ladder.

For his pro career entering this week, the reliever was 11-7 with a 3.71 ERA in 98 games with 187 strikeouts in 189 innings. He lost much of the 2018 and 2019 seasons to an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery.

The son of Romauld and Carolina Mauricio played much of the 2023 season and the start of 2024 for the Double-A Somerset Patriots of the Eastern League, of which the Richmond Flying Squirrels are a member.

Should Mauricio, now 27, get the call from the parent Yankees, he would join Terry Bradshaw on Norfolk State’s list of big leaguers.

Bradshaw, from Franklin, Va., played in the outfield with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995.