Orix Buffaloes

About

Orix Buffaloes
Year Founded 1936 (Orix Bluewave), 1950 (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
League Pacific
Official Site
(Japanese)
http://www.buffaloes.co.jp/
Former Name Orix Bluewave:
Hankyu Professional Baseball Club (1936-46)
Hankyu Bears (1947)
Hankyu Braves (1947-88)
Orix Braves (1989-90)
Orix BlueWave (1991-2004)
Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes:
Kintetsu Pearls (1950-58)
Kintetsu Buffalo (1959-1961)
Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962-1998)
Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1999-2004)
Ballpark Orix Bluewave:
Takarazuka Stadium (1936)
Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium (1937-1990)
Green Stadium Kobe
Yahoo!BB Stadium (1991-2004)
Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes:
Fujiidera Stadium (1950)
Osaka Stadium (1950-1957)
Nissay Stadium (1958-1983)
Fujiidera Stadium (1984-1996)
Osaka Dome (1997-2004)
League
Champion
Orix Bluewave:
12 times (1967-9, 1971-2, 1975-78, 1984, 1995-6)
Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes:
4 times (1979-80, 1989, 2001)
Japan Series
Champion
Orix Bluewave:
4 times (1975-77, 1996)
Retired Numbers -

Current Roster

Position Number Name 氏名
1st Squad Manager 80 Akinobu Okada 岡田彰布
1st Squad Head Coach 72 Shinya Kobayashi 小林晋哉
1st Squad Coach 71 Nobuyuki Hoshino 星野伸之
1st Squad Coach 70 Eiji Kiyokawa 清川栄治
1st Squad Coach 87 Kozo Shoda 正田耕三
1st Squad Coach 90 Eiji Mizuguchi 水口栄二
1st Squad Coach 74 Hideaki Matsuyama 松山秀明
1st Squad Coach 78 Osamu Yonemura 米村理
1st Squad Coach 82 Takashi Miwa 三輪隆
1st Squad Coach 79 Takahiro Akagawa 赤川貴弘
2nd Squad Manager 81 Hiromasa Arai 新井宏昌
2nd Squad Coach 77 Keijiro Yumioka 弓岡敬二郎
2nd Squad Coach 75 Tsutomu Sakai 酒井勉
2nd Squad Coach 83 Hirofumi Ogawa 小川博文
2nd Squad Coach 76 Koichi Ohshima 大島公一
2nd Squad Coach 73 Kosuke Yoshihara 吉原孝介
2nd Squad Coach 84 Shunsuke Motoyashiki 本屋敷俊介
2nd Squad Coach 89 Hiroshi Kobayashi 小林宏
Development Coach 85 Shusaku Beppu 別府修作
Development Coach 88 Masaharu Yasuda 安田昌玄
Pitcher 11 Masanobu Ohkubo 大久保勝信
Pitcher 12 Hiroshi Kisanuki 木佐貫洋
Pitcher 13 Akio Shimizu 清水章夫
Pitcher 14 Shuichi Yoshikawa 吉川秀一
Pitcher 15 Daisuke Katoh 加藤大輔
Pitcher 16 Yoshihisa Hirano 平野佳寿
Pitcher 17 Ryota Katsuki 香月良太
Pitcher 18 Mamoru Kishida 岸田護
Pitcher 19 Chihiro Kaneko 金子千尋
Pitcher 20 Shogo Yamamoto 山本省吾
Pitcher 21 Takuya Kai 甲斐拓哉
Pitcher 24 Jon Leichester
Pitcher 26 Masaki Ihara 伊原正樹
Pitcher 28 Satoshi Komatsu 小松聖
Pitcher 29 Kenji Kobayashi 小林賢司
Pitcher 34 Kazuya Motoyanagi 本柳和也
Pitcher 35 Motoki Higa 比嘉幹貴
Pitcher 39 Takashi Kamoshida 鴨志田貴司
Pitcher 43 Toru Anan 阿南徹
Pitcher 45 Atsuhiro Mitsuhara 光原逸裕
Pitcher 46 Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara 菊地原毅
Pitcher 47 Daisuke Nobue 延江大輔
Pitcher 48 Makoto Yoshino 吉野誠
Pitcher 49 Shinya Nakayama 中山慎也
Pitcher 50 Takehito Kanazawa 金澤健人
Pitcher 57 Nobuyoshi Yamada 山田修義
Pitcher 60 Yuji Maeda 前田祐二
Pitcher 62 Masataka Yamazaki 山崎正貴
Pitcher 63 Yuki Nishi 西勇輝
Pitcher 64 Masato Nishikawa 西川雅人
Pitcher 65 Kazuki Kondoh 近藤一樹
Pitcher 68 Takuma Nitoh 仁藤拓馬
Pitcher 99 Tatsuya Kajimoto 梶本達哉
Catcher 22 Daisuke Maeda 前田大輔
Catcher 27 Takeshi Hidaka 日高剛
Catcher 37 Toshiya Tsuji 辻俊哉
Catcher 44 Fumihiro Suzuki 鈴木郁洋
Catcher 61 Hikaru Itoh 伊藤光
Catcher 67 Tetsuya Yokoyama 横山徹也
Catcher 69 Kenta Doi 土井健大
Infielder 0 Makoto Moriyama 森山周
Infielder 1 Mitsutaka Gotoh 後藤光尊
Infielder 2 Koji Yamazaki 山崎浩司
Infielder 3 Ikki 嶋村一輝
Infielder 4 Masahiro Abe 阿部真宏
Infielder 10 Kenji Ohbiki 大引啓次
Infielder 23 Hirotoshi Kitagawa 北川博敏
Infielder 30 Greg LaRocca
Infielder 31 Makoto Shiozaki 塩崎真
Infielder 38 Tsuyoshi Takashima 高島毅
Infielder 42 Alex Cabrera
Infielder 52 Aarom Baldiris
Infielder 55 T-Okada 岡田貴弘
Infielder 56 Ryosuke Shibata 柴田亮輔
Infielder 57 Masahiro Nagata 長田昌浩
Outfielder 6 Naoyuki Ohmura 大村直之
Outfielder 7 Osamu Hamanaka 濱中治
Outfielder 9 Tomotaka Sakaguchi 坂口智隆
Outfielder 25 Yuichiro Mukae 迎祐一郎
Outfielder 32 Masaya Niwa 丹羽将弥
Outfielder 36 Shinji Shimoyama 下山真二
Outfielder 41 Hiroyuki Oze 小瀬浩之
Outfielder 53 Ryota Aikawa 相川良太
Outfielder 66 Shintaro Yoshida 由田慎太郎

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