Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year is and who runs it

Imperial Valley Press presents the Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year as a fan-voted award for Massachusetts high school baseball. Crowdsignal is the host, and the ballot lives at poll.fm/17271657. The vertical is school sport, and the format is a straight public vote: whoever attracts the most supporter clicks wins the title for that edition.

The nominee list is what gives the program its local shape. The 2026 ballot draws players from towns across Massachusetts, including Medway, Wellesley, Ashland, Holliston, Franklin, Hopedale, Natick, Millis, plus the Nipmuc and Lincoln-Sudbury school communities. That footprint makes the vote a town-versus-town contest as much as an individual one, which is why supporter turnout in each community tends to decide the outcome.

Because the ballot names high school players, this page describes the program by publisher, sport and community and does not name any individual nominee. The facts table below collects the confirmed details.

The dated record: editions, the July window and what is not published

Three edition years are confirmed for the Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year: 2022, 2025 and 2026. Those repeated cycles make the program annual, and the 2026 cycle is the latest, with the next expected in 2027. The gap between 2022 and 2025 is part of the published history; the page does not explain it, and no edition years beyond those three are claimed.

The voting window in the confirmed cycles falls in July, with July serving as both the opening and the closing month. The 2026 ballot is closed, and its page title says so plainly. What the organizer has not printed anywhere is the exact open and close calendar dates, the roster of categories beyond the player of the year vote itself, or any ceiling on repeat votes; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The 2026 results are published on the ballot page and give a sense of the scale: the Medway nominee finished first at 54 percent on 10,000 votes, the Nipmuc nominee took 35 percent on 6,434 votes, and the Wellesley nominee held 5 percent on 926 votes. The gap between the top two communities is wide, and it shows how quickly a well-organized town push can separate itself in a July window.

How a supporter votes in the Daily News baseball poll today

Voting takes three moves. Open the ballot at poll.fm/17271657, read the nominee list pairing each player with a Massachusetts community, mark the circle next to the chosen player, and submit with the vote button. No nomination form stands between the supporter and the vote in the confirmed editions; the player of the year choice rests on a single public vote.

That address currently shows the closed 2026 edition, so a visitor sees final standings rather than an open ballot. When the next cycle arrives in 2027, the 2027 ballot is expected at the same Crowdsignal address, with a refreshed nominee list for that season's players.

Two practical points follow from that setup. Because the ballot is public, every vote a community mobilizes counts immediately and the running percentages are visible, which is why early leads in a July window matter. Second, Imperial Valley Press has not published a rule on repeat voting, so a supporter planning to return daily should check the live ballot for whatever limit the host enforces that cycle. The votes guide covers repeat participation without tripping a host's rules.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

Massachusetts carries a crowded field of school-sport fan votes, and the Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year holds a specific lane within it: a player of the year vote for baseball, run on Crowdsignal, with a July window. The weekly athlete ballots run on a different rhythm entirely.

The nearest neighbours include the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week, both of which reset weekly rather than crowning a single season winner. The Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week covers the same sport on the weekly cadence, so the two programs rarely compete for the same supporter attention at the same moment.

Beyond baseball, the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is the closest softball analogue, the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week spans all sports, and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week covers basketball. What distinguishes the Daily News vote is its town-anchored nominee list, from Medway and Wellesley to Franklin and Natick, which turns the final tally into a measure of which community shows up hardest.

Strengthening support for a Medway or Wellesley nominee

This ballot rewards turnout above everything else. Voting here is a straight public vote on Crowdsignal, so the campaigns that win are the ones that move the most Medway, Wellesley and Franklin supporters to poll.fm/17271657 during the July window and keep them returning if the host allows repeat votes. The 2026 spread, 54 percent against 35 percent, shows what a mobilized community does to a close race.

Imperial Valley Press has not published rules covering outside help here, so any organized push should stay inside what a supporter would do anyway: share the link through team group chats, booster networks and school parent channels, and ask each supporter to vote and pass it on. The how to get more votes online guide walks through that outreach in detail, and the service overview explains what paid support involves for readers weighing that option.