Thanks, 3 Eyed Owl! Hope you like the next one.
This one has to be the smallest divergence of the bunch, but how it got to the present day is a twisted tale in and of itself. Not all of this is fictional!
The modern-day Zenkoku League franchise we're showing below was among the earliest professional teams in the Osaka area, but they weren't using this name when they joined the league. They were the Hyogo Gladiators, and they played in the same part of town as the Kansai Cubs. A new owner in the late 1980s moved them into the Kobe area, re-christening them the Thunder. All the while, a completely separate team in Osaka in the Zenkoku League was using this identity after renaming from the Divers.
These two clubs would then merge, citing financial hardship and a shrinking market, in the early 2000s, touching off a firestorm of player and fan anger. It was only through re-expansion of the Zenkoku League with the addition of the Sendai Woodpeckers that things calmed down.
And to add insult to injury, the Thunder franchise would be the one that continued on with the others' name and ballpark. Got all that? Good. Here's the...
Osaka Bulls
This one came to me fully formed because I was craving beef curry. There's a restaurant chain here in Toronto called Gyugyuya, and that is basically their logo.
SF Fedora is the font used here.
Colour scheme is in reference to both bulls "seeing red" and a prior incarnation of [TEAM REDACTED] in [LEAGUE REDACTED].
Three uniforms here: white home, grey road (and please let me know if the greys need to get darker or if it's fine as is!), and red alternate.
EDIT: I realized that the Bulls are the only JPBO team to not use a letter as their small logo (there is an in-universe reason
why), so I quickly make this up from their cap logo if that bugs you.
EDIT 2: Further throwing a wrench into this entire plan is that the Bulls in the JPBO have won 7 rings and 17 pennants...and the Gladiators/Thunder have zero championships and only six pennants. Since that's closer in-line to what the IRL equivalent of the team that got nerfed did, the merger will wipe out the Thunder, or at the very least just force them to move to Sendai.