The Atlanta Braves' mission at this year's trade deadline was relatively simple. They needed to shed a good chunk of their pending free agents given that this team isn't going anywhere and they could also entertain adding some players that could help them next year and beyond. As long as they ended up doing at least one of those things, their trade deadline strategy would be more that defensible.
However, that's not what happened. Not only did the Braves not trade Marcell Ozuna or Raisel Iglesias who were the more expensive guys they would have liked to move, they didn't do anything else at all after trading Rafael Montero the night before the trade deadline.