Yankees prospect Eric Reyzelman promoted to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, touching 100 mph
Reyzelman’s 32 strikeouts against four walks at Double-A and a fastball that can hit 100 mph turned a promotion into a real Bronx bullpen conversation.
Eric Reyzelman’s jump to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre was not just another ladder rung for a Yankees arm. It was the kind of promotion that starts to matter in the Bronx, because the 24-year-old right-hander arrived with dominant strikeout-to-walk numbers, a fastball that has touched 100 mph, and a health report that looks better than it has in years.
Reyzelman, listed by MLB Pipeline as the Yankees’ No. 28 prospect, reached Triple-A after putting up a 3.12 ERA with 32 strikeouts and four walks in 17.1 innings at Double-A. Across all of his 2026 minor league work, he has logged 21.2 innings, struck out 36 and posted a 2.91 ERA. His Triple-A line is even cleaner in a tiny sample: 4.1 innings, a 2.08 ERA and four strikeouts. In a system that is always looking for bullpen arms who can miss bats right now, that profile stands out.
The context makes the move more interesting. Reyzelman is not just climbing because he is throwing hard. He is climbing after a long stretch of injury trouble that included Tommy John surgery as a freshman at San Francisco in 2020, three operations for a cyst on his back that wiped out most of 2023 and part of 2024, and a mild back strain that cost him the final two months of 2025. He opened 2026 back in Somerset after back surgery and looked like a pitcher rebuilding real momentum, not just collecting innings.
That momentum has shown up in the numbers and in the radar gun. Baseball America listed him at 16.6 strikeouts per nine and a 0.810 WHIP in 17.1 innings this season, while MLB Pipeline has long described a mid-90s fastball that can reach 99 mph and a slider that can miss bats. Baseball America said he threw the fastball 94 percent of the time in the referenced season, which tells you exactly what the Yankees believe his best weapon is: power, simplicity and enough command to make the pitch matter.
The Yankees already got a glimpse of that upside on May 26, when Reyzelman worked the sixth inning against Worcester, entered with the bases loaded and struck out Matt Lloyd before being lifted. That is the kind of cameo that keeps a reliever on the radar when the system needs help quickly.
For Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the promotion fits a roster shuffle. For the Yankees, it reads like something more deliberate: a test of whether Reyzelman’s stuff, health and strike-throwing can hold up at the level that sits one phone call away from Aaron Boone. If they keep holding, the Bronx bullpen conversation will only get louder.
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