The High School on SI / SBLive spring fan vote for the best Massachusetts prep baseball performance of the week. SI editors nominate around ten players from across the state, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a day later than the Massachusetts football POTW closes on Sundays.
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The Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week closes Monday night. Not Sunday. That detail matters more than it sounds.
The football Player of the Week — the poll most Massachusetts prep fans know from fall — closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. The baseball poll closes a full day later. So when casual voters assume the week is over Sunday night and stop engaging, the baseball ballot is still live, and a focused campaign that keeps going through Monday owns those remaining hours essentially unopposed.
That Monday window showed up in both 2025 confirmed polls. The 4/22/2025 ballot closed April 27 (Monday); the 5/5/2025 ballot stated a May 4, 11:59 p.m. close. Same platform, same mechanic — it is not a fluke. The week's decisive votes land Monday, and the campaigns that know that tend to win.
Sandwich produced two consecutive winners in the spring 2025 season. Mitchell Norkevicius won the week of April 18–24; Jeremy Angeles won the following week, April 25–May 1. Two different players, same program, consecutive wins.
No raw vote totals are published for weekly polls — so the margin on either win is not on record — but the back-to-back itself is a data point. Sandwich is a Cape Cod program. Cape towns run tight: the high school team is the spring sports institution in those communities, and a poll link that goes into the right text thread on a Sunday gets answered. Sean Fancher of Mashpee — also Cape Cod — took the next confirmed week, May 9–15. Three of the three confirmed 2025 winners are from the Cape or southeastern Massachusetts.
That is not a conspiracy, and it is not proof of anything structural. But it is the only pattern in the confirmed data, and patterns in limited data are worth naming.
The two confirmed 2025 ballots are worth sitting with, because the field composition changes between them.
The April 22 ballot had ten nominees from across eastern Massachusetts: Foxborough, Bedford, Needham, Franklin, St. Mary's, Lincoln-Sudbury, Uxbridge, Natick, Phillips Academy, and Belmont Hill. Public programs mixed with independent prep schools — Phillips and Belmont Hill draw students from across the state and beyond, with alumni networks that aren't local in any traditional sense. A Belmont Hill vote campaign looks nothing like a Needham vote campaign.
The May 5 ballot had a different structural wrinkle: Norwell appeared twice — Sam Horwitz and Patrick Higgins both made the list. Two nominees from one school in a ten-person field. If Norwell supporters split their votes down the middle, both players land in the middle of the pack instead of either one near the top. The practical lesson from that ballot is that field composition determines strategy as much as community size does.
| Week | Notable field feature | Strategic implication |
|---|---|---|
| 4/22/2025 | Prep schools (Phillips, Belmont Hill) alongside public programs | Alumni base is national, not local; turnout mechanism differs |
| 5/5/2025 | Two Norwell nominees (Horwitz + Higgins) on same ballot | Split-school vote is a real risk when field is ten names wide |
Spring baseball in Massachusetts is its own scheduling reality. Games run April through early June, often on weekdays in cold April weather, with playoff brackets running into late May. The poll window — roughly Tuesday open to Monday 11:59 p.m. close — overlaps with mid-week games, meaning a nominee can have another appearance between when the ballot opens and when it closes. That is context voters rarely get and worth putting in a reminder.
The poll is statewide and uncapped. Both of those things matter. Statewide means your nominee is competing against players from Foxborough, Cape Cod, Springfield, and the North Shore simultaneously — regional pride doesn't automatically concentrate, it has to be activated. Uncapped means that a booster post on Monday evening, after most people have already voted once, still moves the number.
For campaigns that want structured support beyond a text chain, the vote-support guide covers how turnout campaigns work for weekly, open-cap polls like this one. The general how-to guide walks through the weekly cadence that applies to any SI-platform ballot. The state directory is at /usa/massachusetts/, and the full national fan-vote index lives at /usa/.
The ballot lives inside a dated article, not a standalone page. Navigate to si.com/high-school/massachusetts or the athlete-of-the-week hub and look for the newest Baseball Player of the Week post. Older polls stay accessible online, so confirm the date before casting a vote — an expired ballot won't count.
Each nominee is listed with the stat line that earned the nod: hits, RBI, pitching strikeouts, innings, the opponent. The write-ups are the only public record of what the nominees did that week, and they matter — voters who read them vote with more conviction, and that conviction often shows in how far they share the link.
Select your player in the embedded widget. No account, email, or login is needed. The platform explicitly states no per-vote limit is set, so a supporter can return to the article and vote through the full open window. The only hard stop is Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
Because the window runs most of the week, the votes that actually decide outcomes tend to land in the final 24 hours, when competing campaigns are also finishing their push. A team group chat reminder on Monday afternoon, a booster page post Monday evening — those late touches land when they matter most.
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