With their left-handed relief depth needing some support, the Blue Jays have signed 30-year-old Venezualan pitcher Franklin Morales according to a report this afternoon from Andrew Hendriks of the Canadian Baseball Network.
Pitching for the Kansas City Royals in 2015, Morales threw 62.1 innings over 67 appearances with a 3.18 ERA. His strikeout rate sunk to a career low of 5.9 K/9, but he did offset that with the most efficient walk rate of his nine years in the Major Leagues.
After spending the early years of his career with Colorado and Boston, Morales did return to the Rockies in 2014 where he started 22 games and pitched 142.