As the Angels take the field Friday, April 7, for their home opener, they will be battling back from last season’s winning drought and a City Hall corruption scandal potentially coloring team relations with Anaheim and its residents.

Political and sports pundits say winning solves a lot of problems and the Angels are heading home sporting a 4-2 record. With a new mayor, four new City Council members and a new season, many Anaheim officials say it is time to hit the “reset button” on city dealings with the baseball organization.

Others have a more jaundiced view of the city’s relations with Angels owner Arte Moreno and Anaheim’s tourism machine. There is distrust among some residents of the new council members and whether they will preserve the mechanisms put into place last year by the previous council to assure transparency.

Much remains uncertain. The dust has yet to settle on an FBI investigation that in May revealed allegations that ex-Mayor Harry Sidhu may have tried to help Moreno’s business partnership during negotiations to buy the city-owned stadium. There also is a separate city-commissioned investigation into Sidhu and an alleged cabal that may have improperly steered Anaheim’s dealings with the Angels and other business interests.