List of Orix Buffaloes seasons

Summary

The Orix Buffaloes are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in the Pacific League that splits their home games between Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. and Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium in Kobe, Japan. The team originally began play as the Hankyu Club in 1936 in the Japanese Baseball League. They rebranded as the Hankyu Braves in 1947, which they retained all the way until 1989, when the team was acquired by Orix, a financial services company founded in Osaka; they became Orix Braves in 1989. In 1991, the team was rebranded as the Orix BlueWave. In 2004, mounting financial trouble led to the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment that saw the team merge with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka and rebrand as the Orix Buffaloes starting in 2005.