One of the top clubs in Japanese baseball, Orix Buffaloes has a reputation of being one of the most difficult teams to break down. Members of the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball, the team has been a dominating force since its foundation in 1936. While the team has won either Pacific League championships or Japan Series championships in every decade, it hit a surprising slump in form at the turn of the millennium and finished the first decade of the 2000s without silverware.
