Yeah, but the team is *in* Cleveland, where people do get the reference. What you're describing as obscurity could be just as easily called authenticity. I went to college in the area, and I recognized the reference, even if I didn't know much about it. I was like, oh cool, it's those rad WPA statues from that bridge. I looked it up: the project actually started pre-WPA.
As a fan (since April 2020) of the Fubon Guardians, I kind of love that Yu Chang of the newly-christened Cleveland Guardians is the younger brother of Fubon's catcher. It's a name with a baseball tradition, even if it's only 30 years of tradition in Taiwan. How old were the NY Giants when the Yomiuri Giants were named?
(I imagine they chose it for matching the scansion of Indians.)