Jason Lloyd put it this way:
The most important thing we can call Cleveland’s baseball team is winners. The more they win, the faster the new name will be embraced. I’m more concerned with the lease negotiations, the potential for a minority investor and the future payroll than I am with the franchise’s nickname....
But they still boast one of the best farm systems in all of baseball, a Cy Young winner just entering his prime and a perennial MVP candidate. The organization remains one of the best at developing pitching, the payroll will soon begin to climb again and the Guardians seem poised to contend before the Tigers, who have been rebuilding in the American League Central Division for the last five years and still have a ways to go.