The Braves were nine games behind the Giants before Fred McGriff's debut on July 20, 1993. Three days after the 30th anniversary of one of the most bizarre dates in team history, McGriff is being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
. His career-highs in most major stats — including games played, doubles, homers, RBIs and batting average — all came with the Braves, and so, arguably, did his most lasting impact. Not just for the tremendous numbers he produced for Atlanta from July 1993 through 1997, and his and the team’s postseason success, but also the influence he had on teammates, including Hall of Famer Chipper Jones.
Hitting in front of McGriff, with the other sluggers the Braves had behind him, helped Jones see plenty of fastballs early in his career, which was what legendary manager Bobby Cox had in mind when he put the kid in that third spot in the order from the beginning of his 1995 rookie season. When Padres star Tony Gwynn heard who they got back in the trade for his friend McGriff, he was surprised andthe package didn’t include any of the top Braves prospects whose names had been bandied about leading up to the July 18 announcement of the deal. Names like Jones, Klesko, Lopez and Mike Kelly.
After homering in his debut, McGriff went 3-for-4 with two home runs the next day in a 14-2 rout of the Cardinals, with Pendleton, Gant and Francisco Cabrera adding a homer apiece. Maddux was the starter in that one. The atmosphere in Atlanta had changed in two days, the possibility of another division title now seeming more realistic than before the trade.
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