.347: That is the current batting average of the Alazanes de Granma in this 63rd Cuban National Baseball Series. .347? Yes, it seems like a joke, a math trick, but it's real. In these first 25 games — basically the first third of the regular season — the Alazanes have also led the league in OBP (.433), slugging (.553), OPS (.986), and home run rate (3.6%).
Assuming they can continue that pace, this Alazanes team is on track to set a new record for batting average in the National Series. Currently, the record for batting average for a team (with a wooden bat) is held by the Matanzas Crocodiles, who recorded .330 BA in 90 games of the 2016-2017 season. By the way, that year the Crocodiles were eliminated by the Alazanes de Granma in the Semifinal, so that whole myth of their “great offensive” ended up being a fiasco. I don't think it will be easy to surpass that average,* but this Alazanes team is definitely destroying the pitchers in this 63rd National Series.