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I'm just going by what IP said about 3 teams scouting him. Plus he only has 1 year of control left after 2024. 
Sandoval could have value but I think this is more of a "I want to get rid of him" trade than something that would actually benefit the team. Anyway I've been beating this drum for the last 2 seasons regarding Sandy and I think he holds more value to the Angels than he could possibly bring in a trade. But that's just my opinion. 

Definitely trade him at the deadline. Canning as well. 

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teaching days left til i retire:

Is that good? Cancer grows on people too. 

You won't get a better return in the offseason. A team that is trying to make a push and needs pitching has less leverage than when there will be a long list of comparable free agents available to sign.

He just doesn’t have it mentally. Talent can carry a few stretches but I wouldn’t trust him with any type of meaningful game. Trade for just about anything. 

Sandoval is a Andrew Heaney clone. 

Trade everyone but the kids

And apparently Kevin hall of fame pillar and Willie stargel Calhoun.
maybe they can get giolito again. 

Zero hesitation trade. Get the absolute best young player a team offers in return. 

Trade him at the deadline. 

The OP makes it sound like a marriage - that you stick with your spouse through thick and thin, illness and health. But what if your spouse is sleeping around, gambling away your savings and beating your kids? 
That's pretty much the equivalent of the Angels. They've been terribly mismanaged by Arte and his sycophantic front office for a decade and a half, going back to the 2009-10 offseason. Right now they're one of the half a dozen or so worst teams in baseball, with the worst farm system, due to that mis-management.
I'm not going to stop being an Angels fan; to be honest, it isn't really my choice. We love what we love. But I think it isn't unreasonable to bitch and moan about the self-inflicted low point we're in, especially as we're facing the ninth straight losing season. I mean, you have to go back to Obama to find a winning Angels team.
 

I am not a baseball fan. I am an ANGEL fan. I was at all the home games in the World Series in 2002. If the Angels are not in the playoffs, I never watch a complete game. I see occasional highlights. I am an active computer gamer and have lots of other hobbies. I am frustrated with the team now. Watching the Angels is my #1 hobby. I feel that I get more upset with loses than the team members do.
After all, when they are a free agent, they will just jump to the highest bidder or close to the highest bidder. I refuse to go where the grass is greener. I'm used to just looking at the weeds and Arte dumping a bunch of fertilizer on them to see if he can grow something, which, as we all know, doesn't work.

Someone replied on one of my Angels tweets calling him Artie Marino. 

I was eating a burrito in a crowded movie theater. Arte Moreno looked at me and yelled, "This ***** eatin beans!" Everyone laughed. I've never been so embarrassed.

I saw Arte Moreno at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Now that Intuit Dome is completed for next NBA season, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his $105 billion net worth needs a new challenge.
What better than overwhelming Moreno with an offer (up to $4 billion?) to purchase the Halos, and then begin a battle with the Guggenheims up the 5 freeway and eventually get a new stadium built with his own money?
One can dream.

With all this talk about how the Angels are going to dig themselves out of this hole, I thought I'd examine at least one successful franchise to try to glean what their methodology was. 
I looked at the Astros from 2015-23, a period in which they reached the playoffs in all but one year (2016), the World Series four times, including two championships. While other franchises have had similar periods of dominance, few did so after following as horrible a period as the Astros' 2011-14, in which they averaged 104 losses a year.
In other words, the Astros went from being the major league's worst team from 2011-14 to the best from 2015-23 (though it should be mentioned that they didn't get really good until 2017).
How'd they do it? Well, I was curious. I looked at every player who produced at least 3 WAR for the Astros during the 2015-23 period, and came up with a list of 35 players, pitchers and hitters, totaling 386.1 WAR. Given that the team totaled 434.1 WAR for those nine years, these 35 players produced 88.9% of the team's WAR value.
I then looked at where the Astros got those 35 players, in five categories:
Amateur Draft: 9 players (151.3 WAR)
International/amateur free agent: 7 players (88.9 WAR)
Trades: 13 players (106.7 WAR)
MLB free agents: 4 players (24.7 WAR)
Waivers: 2 players (14.5 WAR)
What should immediately stand out is how little of the team's total WAR came from major league free agency. The vast majority came from the Amateur Draft, trades, and international signings (in that order, though the WAR per player on international signings is significantly higher than players brought via trades).
What about the better players? The top Astro during that period is, unsurprisingly, Jose Altuve with 46.2 WAR, who was an international signing in 2007. The next three are Alex Bregman (35.5), Carlos Correa (27.4), and George Springer (23.7), all of whom were all from the Draft, and all first round picks. Actually, fully six of the top 10 are draftees, five of whom were first rounders.
To get to the top free agent, you have to go all the way down to #15, Michael Brantley (8.3 WAR). The fourteen players above him include three international signings, six draftees, four trades, and one waiver pick.
TLDR and Summary: The Astros' success from 2015-23 is mostly due to a combination of the draft, international signings, and trades. Very little of their success came from free agency - with only four free agents accounting for more than 3 WAR.
Every team is constructed differently, but I'm guessing that the majority of perennially good teams are similarly weighted towards homegrown talent (draft, international signings) and trades, and less so free agency. Some teams almost certainly have a stronger percentage of free agents, but as a general rule, the Astros are a good template of a successful approach. The key being that the majority of their good players are homegrown; trades and free agency are used to fill gaps, but not to center your team on.
This is nothing new - everyone (except, perhaps, Arte Moreno) understands that the foundation of most--if not all--perennially good teams is a strong farm system, including scouting and development. But the numbers for the Astros illustrate this rather starkly. Let's hope that someone in the Angels org has some sense of this.
 
Postscript
As a postscript, the question arises: when were these players signed relative to the Astros period of success? Altuve was the earliest in 2007--he spent almost five years in the minors, and then played for the Astros through their bad era. A couple other draftees came in 2008-09, but the majority were acquired in 2011 or later. Meaning, most of the value of the 2015-23 team came to the Astros within four years of that time span.
If we look at the five first rounders drafted from 2011-15--Springer in 2011, Correa and McCullers in 2012, Bregman and Tucker in 2015 (with two dud picks in 2013-14 in Mark Appel and Brady Aiken)--all five are in the top eight WAR players on the list.
It is hard to say how close the Angels' recent top draft picks are to the Astros group. Quite a few of the current team are first-round draft picks, including those who have at least experienced a "cup": Taylor Ward (2015), Matt Thaiss (2016), Jo Adell (2017), Jordyn Adams (2018), Reid Detmers (2020), Sam Bachman (2021), Zach Neto (2022), Nolan Schanuel (2023). It remains to be seen how good this group becomes, but all look to be at least major leaguers in some capacity, and some quality regulars or better.
This is in stark contrast to the previous half a decade or so of first-rounders; after Trout in 2009, only one of the next seven first-rounders produced more than 3 WAR in the big leagues (CJ Cron); three never made it (Taylor Lindsey, Chevy Clarke, Ryan Bolden), one produced negative WAR (Caleb Cowart), two less than 3 (Sean Newcomb, Cam Bedrosian). So the good news is that the Angels have drafted better under Billy Eppler and Perry Minasian, at least in the first round, than they did under Jerry Dipoto. 
What the Angels truly lack compared to the Astros are successful international signees, most especially Jose Altuve and Framber Valdez. Who knows, maybe Nelson Rada can be their big success story.
The Astros also had a heist trade in acquiring Yordan Alvarez, and two big name starters in Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole. The Angels haven't really had much success on the trade market.
 

This decade's "Scioscia's post-game comments" concept.

@Jeff Fletcher, do you have any of those queued up? lol

"Despite <STARTER>'s best effort, Angels offense comes up short."
"<STARTER> continues to struggle, Angels hitters can't make up difference."
"<RANDOM PLAYER> enjoys second chance."
"<YOUNG PLAYER>impresses, but can't quite carry team to victory."
"Mike Trout has setback, will be out <X MORE WEEKS>."