Orix becomes the fifth team to reach this milestone, behind Yomiuri (9726), Seibu (8466), Chunichi (8352) and Softbank (8093). (Numbers through last Tuesday I assume). Seibu is the odd outlier here as the other four teams all started in the 1930's but the Lions didn't begin play until 1950 - they must have a hit a lot of home runs along the way to pass every one but the Giants.
Iwasaki is an odd guy to have hit the home run - it's only the second of his career which began in 2009 in the Dragons organization.
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| 2011 BBM Dragons #D50 |
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I'm curious, when the Orix BlueWave and Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes merged, did they merge records, or have the original Buffaloes franchise records just been abandoned as of the merger?
As far as I can tell, Orix has not adopted Kintetsu's records or any other aspect of their history. For example, Keishi Suzuki's uniform number (#1) was retired by Kintetsu but both Mitsutaka Gotoh and Hiroyuki Nakajima have worn it for Orix since the "merger".
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