Baseball

The Reds thought long and hard about Atlanta's offer to trade slugger Dale Murphy for struggler Eric Davis. First, Cincinnati demanded that the Braves throw in minor league pitching prospect Tommy Greene. Then the Reds decided that they were too far behind the Dodgers for such a deal to make sense. Still, Cincinnati management is quite unhappy with Davis's attitude, not to mention his poor production. At the end of last week he was batting .273 with 20 homers and 59 RBIs. Last year he hit .293 with 37 homers and 100 RBIs.

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