Torre was fired when the 1984 campaign ended[3] and replaced by coach Eddie Haas, who had been a successful pilot in the Braves' farm system.
[4] Haas' immediate successor, coach Bobby Wine, finished the season and compiled a 16–25 (.390) mark.
A 9–5 win over the Astros on Friday, April 19, gave the Braves a 5–4 record, good enough for second place, a half-game out.
The Braves then lost three straight to the Cardinals, the beginning of a 4–11 stretch that lowered their record to 20–30 on June 7.
On July 4, the New York Mets beat the Braves 16-13 in a 19-inning contest that featured Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, Mets manager Davey Johnson being ejected, and the Braves coming back to tie the game twice in extra innings, most notably in the bottom of the 18th.
Relief pitcher Rick Camp, a career .074 hitter batting only because the Braves had no position players left, shockingly hit a solo home run on a 0-2 pitch in the 18th off Tom Gorman to re-tie the game at 11-11.
Infielders Coaches With Tanner's hiring, Braves' owner Ted Turner had employed four different managers in the period of 13 months.
But Turner made a more momentous change in his executive offices on October 22, 1985, when he replaced general manager John Mullen, on the job since Bill Lucas' sudden death in May 1979, with former Atlanta field manager Bobby Cox, who had just piloted the Toronto Blue Jays to the 1985 American League East Division pennant.
As general manager, Cox began a long rebuilding process that would last five seasons, and see Cox draft, develop or acquire players like Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Chipper Jones, David Justice and Steve Avery.
Cox would enter the Baseball Hall of Fame on the strength of his successful managerial career, which ended with his 2010 retirement.