Anonymous BTS leader nearing $5.6 million

Superstition and baseball tend to tango when it comes to MLB.com’s flagship fantasy game, Beat the Streak.

The rules of BTS are simple, even if the challenge is not: Correctly pick a batter or two each day to tally a hit in a game. Then do it again and again, and don’t stop until 57 straight successful selections are made. To do so would be to “top” Joe DiMaggio’s MLB-record 56-game hitting streak, one of baseball’s most hallowed marks. The prize for prevailing is $5.6 million.

One prescient fan has been climbing the BTS mountain for quite some time, having been credited with 47 consecutive correct picks since July 3. The user, csteele12, is 82.5 percent of the way to the BTS apex, a virtual stone’s throw from a seat with the financial elite. What do we know about Mr. (or Ms.) csteele12? Well, unfortunately, not much. The leader has politely declined to comment on several occasions, opting to instead focus on this remarkable run.

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Unsurprisingly, many rumors have abounded to explain the mystery leader’s silence. Could csteele12 be a robot of some sort? Probably not, given his/her decorum across email. Perhaps csteele12’s an …

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