List of Hanshin Tigers seasons
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The Hanshin Tigers are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, next to their main stadium, Hanshin Koshien Stadium. They began play in 1935 as the Osaka Tigers in the Japanese Baseball League, later rebranding to Hanshin Club and then back to Osaka. In their time in the JBL, they won four league pennants. The team adopted their current name in 1960.
The Tigers are owned by Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc.
The Tigers have won the Japan Series two times (1985, 2023), tenth most among all current twelve NPB teams. They have won the Central League pennant seven times, most recently in 2025. Since the Climax Series era began for the Central League in 2007, the Tigers have appeared in the playoffs 13 times.[1]
| W | Number of regular season wins |
|---|---|
| L | Number of regular season losses |
| T | Number of regular season ties |
| GB | Games behind from league's first-place team[a] |
| ROY | Rookie of the Year |
| MVP | Central League Most Valuable Player Award |
| ESA | Eiji Sawamura Award |
| MSA | Matsutaro Shoriki Award |
| Series MVP | Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award |