re: Outsider perspective but necessary: Trade Davis now.

As much as I understand the logic, you don't contemplate trading AD much less actually doing it until the trade deadline next season, at earliest. I do think, hoping against all hope, that changes need to made in the front office and coaching staff sooner rather than later. Next offseason is your last chance to make moves that help this roster now and keep AD here long term. If it doesn't work out then you move on at the deadline, at soonest.