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Orix Buffaloes
League	Pacific League
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
League championships	Hankyu/Orix:1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1995, 1996 Kintetsu: 1978, 1979, 1989, 2001
Japan Series championships	Hankyu/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)
Colors	White, yellow and dark blue
Logo Design	"Buffaloes" written in yellow and blue
Uniforms
Home (Osaka)	Away

The Orix Buffaloes (オリックス・バファローズ, Orikkusu Bafarōzu^?) are 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.

Contents 1 Players of note 1.1 Current manager 1.2 Current stars 1.3 Former players and managers 1.4 History 1.5 Retired numbers 2 External links

•  1 Terry Collins (from 2007 season)

•  2 Tetsuya Matoyama (的山 哲也) - C
•  3 Arihito Muramatsu (村松 有人) - OF
•  5 Kazuhiro Kiyohara (清原 和博) - IF
•  6 Tom Davey - P
• 21 Masato Yoshii (吉井 理人) - P
• 24 Clifford Michael Brumbaugh - P
• 29 Dan Serafini - P
• 32 Lance Carter - P

as Orix Buffaloes

• Akira Ogi (仰木 彬) - manager, deceased
• Norihiro Nakamura (中村 紀洋) - IF
• Yoshitomo Tani (谷 佳知) - OF
• Karim García - OF

as Orix BlueWave

• Akira Ogi (仰木 彬) - manager
• Gregory DeWayne Boomer Wells(Greg Wells) - known as Boomer, IF
• Shigetoshi Hasegawa (長谷川 滋利) - P
• Hiromitsu Kadota - OF
• Dae-Sung Koo - P
• Takahito Nomura (野村 空男) - P
• Kazuhiro Sato (佐藤 和弘) - known as Punch Sato (パンチ佐藤), OF
• 51 Ichiro Suzuki (鈴木 一朗, イチロー) - OF
• So Taguchi (田口 壮) - OF
• Yoshitomo Tani (谷 佳知) - OF

as Kintestu Buffaloes

• Norihiro Nakamura (中村 紀洋) - IF
• Hideo Nomo (野茂 英雄) - P

as Hankyu (and Orix) Braves

• Roberto Barbon - IF
• Tetsuya Yoneda (米田 哲也) - P
• Yutaka Fukumoto (福本 豊) - OF
• Hisashi Yamada (山田 久志) - P
• Hideji Kato (加藤 英司) - 1B
• Hiromi Matsunaga (松永 浩美) - 3B
• Roberto Marcano - IF

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.

• none (in Kintetsu Buffaloes,  1 Keishi Suzuki (鈴木 啓示) - P)

• (Japanese) Orix Buffaloes

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