Orix Buffaloes
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| League | Pacific League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Osaka, Kobe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ballpark | Skymark Stadium, Osaka Dome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year Founded | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Orix (オリックス), Buffaloes (バファローズ), Bs |
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| League championships | Hankyu/Orix:1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1995, 1996 Kintetsu: 1978, 1979, 1989, 2001 |
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| Japan Series championships | Orix: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former name(s) | BlueWave: Osaka Hankyu Baseball Club (1936–1946), Hankyu Braves (1947–1988), Orix Braves (1989–1990), Orix BlueWave (1991–2004) Buffaloes (Pearls): Kintetsu Pearls (1950-1958), Kintetsu Buffalo (1959-1961), Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962-1998), Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1999-2004) |
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| Colors | White, yellow and dark blue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Logo Design | "Buffaloes" written in yellow and blue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Orix Buffaloes (オリックス・バファローズ Orikkusu Bafarōzu?) is a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka and Kobe, Japan, which plays in the Pacific League. The team is owned by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo.
The team was formed after the 2004 NPB season by the merger of the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. The merged team began play in the 2005 NPB season, splitting its home games between the Skymark Stadium (the former home of the BlueWave) in Kobe and the Osaka Dome (that of the Kintetsu Buffaloes) in Osaka.
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[edit] Players of note
[edit] Current manager
Terry Collins (from 2007 season)
[edit] Current stars
- 5
Kazuhiro Kiyohara - IF - 6 Tom Davey - P
- 8 Norihiro Nakamura - IF
- 10 Yoshitomo Tani - OF
- 21 Masato Yoshii - P
- 24 Clifford Michael Brumbaugh - P
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Karim Garcia - OF - 29 Dan Serafini - P
[edit] Former players and managers
as Orix Buffaloes
- Akira Ogi - manager, deceased
as Orix BlueWave
- Akira Ogi - manager
- Gregory DeWayne Boomer Wells - known as Boomer, IF
- Hiromitsu Kadota - OF
- Kazuhiro Sato - known as Punch Sato, OF
- Shigetoshi Hasegawa - P
- Takahito Nomura - P
- So Taguchi - OF
Dae-Sung Koo - P- Ichiro Suzuki - OF
as Kintestu Buffaloes
- Hideo Nomo - P
as Hankyu (and Orix) Braves
Roberto Barbon - IF- Tetsuya Yoneda - P
- Yutaka Fukumoto - OF
- Hisashi Yamada - P
- Hideji Kato - 1B
- Hiromi Matsunaga - 3B
Roberto Marcano - IF
[edit] History
The Kintetsu Buffalo were the first Japanese team to sign an American player. They signed former major league pitcher Glenn Mickens and catcher Ron Bottler for the 1959 season. Mickens had played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953 and Bottler had been a career minor league catcher in the United States.
[edit] Retired numbers
- none (in Kintetsu Buffaloes, 1 Keishi Suzuki)
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Orix Buffaloes
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