TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays acquired outfielder Randal Grichuk in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, the team announced Friday in a release.

The Cardinals received right-handed reliever Dominic Leone and right-handed pitching prospect Conner Greene in the deal.

The 26-year-old Grichuk appeared in 122 games for St. Louis in 2017, batting .238, with 22 home runs, 59 runs batted in and an on-base plus slugging percentage of .758.

Grichuk has played 57 games in left field, 55 in right and five in centre. He has a career batting average of .249, with 66 homers and 182 RBI's in four seasons with the Cardinals.

Leone, 26, had a 2.56 earned-run average, with 81 strikeouts over 70 1/3 innings pitched for Toronto in 2017.

The 22-year-old Greene spent the 2017 season at double-A New Hampshire, posting an ERA of 5.29, with 92 strikeouts over 132 2/3 innings. He was a seventh-round pick in the 2013 draft.