Baseball's trade deadline is at 4 p.m. today. The Braves, who are anticipated to make a move for outfield help or a starting pitcher, already dealt Kolby Allard to Texas for reliever Chris Martin.
Atlanta is nearly 20 games above .500 and is holding on to a 5-1/2 game NL East lead.
The team is no stranger to making deals in time for a playoff push. Here are five significant moves from the team’s past:
July 18, 1993
• Braves acquire Fred McGriff from San Diego for Vince Moore (minors), Donnie Elliott and Melvin Nieves.
Nine games back in the NL West, the Braves added McGriff from the Padres and it sparked a 52-18 stretch run that ended in 104 victories and the division crown. McGriff helped the Braves to a World Series title in 1995 and was an All-Star with Atlanta for three of his four seasons here.
Elliott made 31 appearances with San Diego while Moore only reached the Double-A level. Nieves fielded three seasons in San Diego before a trade to Detroit — where he battted .238, 44 homers and 124 RBI — in 1996.
July 31, 1999
• The Braves traded pitchers Micah Bowie, Ruben Quevedo and Joey Nation to the Chicago Cubs for shortstop Jose Hernandez and pitcher Terry Mulholland.
Mulholland joined Atlanta's star-studded pitching staff, going 4-2 with a 2.98 ERA in 16 games (8 starts). Hernandez batted .252 as the Braves went 40-16 down the stretch. Atlanta finished 6.5 games over the Mets and reached the World Series where they were swept by the New York Yankees. Hernandez left as a free agent. Mulholland pitched in Atlanta one more season.
Bowie, Quevedo and Nation all had very brief stints with the Cubs.
July 31, 2007
• Braves acquired first baseman Mark Teixeira and reliever Ron Mahay from Texas for shortstop Elvis Andrus, catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, left-handers Matt Harrison and Beau Jones, and righty Neftali Feliz.
The Braves' acquisition of Teixeira for a playoff run didn't go as expected. The team (88-74) finished third in the East. The nucleus of Braves prospects helped the Rangers to reach the World Series in 2010 and''11.
The Braves were not able to re-sign Teixeira and traded the first baseman to the Los Angeles Angels for pitcher Stephen Marek and first basemean Casey Kotchman before the 2008 trade deadline.
Kotchman played in 130 games for Atlanta and was traded to the Red Sox for Adam LaRoche. Marek suffered an arm injury and never reached the majors.
July 31, 2011
• The Braves sent pitchers Juan Abreu, Paul Clemens and Brett Oberholtzer, along with outfielder Jordan Schafer to the Houston Astros for center fielder Michael Bourn and cash.
With a 2-1/2 game lead for the wild card, Bourn joined Atlanta for a 53-game stretch that saw them miss the playoffs one game out. Bourn batted .274 with 42 steals in an All-Star season the following year, helping the Braves to a wild card berth. He left as a free agent.
Schafer, who'd been a prized prospect in 2009, went on to play four more major league seasons with the Astros, Braves and Twins.
July 30, 2015
• A three-team trade had the Braves sending pitchers Bronson Arroyo, Luis Avilan, Jim Johnson and Alex Wood, along with infielder Jose Peraza, to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for pitchers Zachary Bird and Paco Rodriguez, and Cuban slugger Hector Olivera.
Bird and Rodriguez never pitched for Atlanta. Olivera hit just 2 homers in 30 games for the Braves, before an arrest for domestic violence in 2016 scuttled his Braves career. Olivera and his $60 million contract were dealt to the Padres for Matt Kemp.
Wood was an All-Star in one of his three seasons in L.A.
