He conceded that it may be tough to find another deal.

“There’s not a lot of sellers out there. With the expanded playoffs, even the teams that are on the outside looking in are close,” he said. “We didn’t want to wait around. If a deal made sense to us, we wanted to go ahead and do it.”

Milone is 1-4 with a 3.99 ERA over six starts in his first season with the Orioles. The Braves initially inquired about his availability shortly after ace Mike Soroka went down with a season-ending Achilles injury on Aug. 3.

“He’s thrown the ball really well,” Anthopoulos said. “The change-up has always been his go-to pitch, but he’s having more success with that, a lot more success than last year. He’s always been a strike thrower, but from talking to him, he feels his command is that much stronger.”

The Orioles will get a couple of prospects who are not in the Braves’ 60-man pool of potential players.

After signing a minor league deal with the Orioles in February, Milone received a major league contract in July. He started on opening day as a replacement for injured John Means and has 31 strikeouts and only four walks over 29 1/3 innings.

Milone’s best effort of the season — six innings of three-hit ball against Washington on Aug. 7 — earned him his lone win with Baltimore. In his last outing, he took his third straight loss, surrendering four runs (two earned) and two homers in 5 1/3 innings of a 4-2 setback to Tampa Bay.