Team information
- Abbr
- ORI
- Sport
- Baseball
- League
- Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan)
- Founded
- 1936
- Home market
- Osaka, JP
The Orix Buffaloes are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The team plays in the Pacific League and is under ownership by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo. The combined team began to play in 2005. The Buffaloes split home games between Kobe Sports P