The Enterprise Brockton-Area High School Baseball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and why the Brockton-area baseball ballot exists

The Enterprise, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs its Brockton-Area Baseball Player of the Year as a public fan vote for high school players. The program asks readers to choose the top baseball player from a slate of nominees drawn from schools across the Brockton area, and it is one of several reader-vote programs the publisher maintains for Massachusetts school sports.

Communities on the ballot are small-school and regional towns rather than a single city: nominees in the most recent edition came from Abington, Avon, Bridgewater-Raynham, Brockton, East Bridgewater and the wider Brockton-area circle that also includes Rockland, Hanson, West Bridgewater and Raynham. Every town named on the ballot sits in Massachusetts, which is what anchors the program to this state rather than to a broader regional field.

The ballot itself lives on Crowdsignal, the poll platform reached through poll.fm, at poll 15632349. That is the address The Enterprise publishes for the baseball Player of the Year vote, and it is where both the nominee list and the voting controls appear when an edition is open.

The dated record for the Enterprise baseball Player of the Year

Two years stand as confirmed editions of this program, 2022 and 2025. That pair is what qualifies the Brockton-area baseball ballot as an annual program, though the paper does not publish a forward schedule, so the gap between 2022 and 2025 cannot be read as a continuous run from the evidence held here.

The confirmed 2025 voting window fell in June, with the month of June serving as both the opening and closing period for that edition. What is not fixed anywhere is finer timing: precise open and close dates, any nomination round before voting, and the platform round dates for the series all sit outside what The Enterprise prints on the ballot itself, so the firm timing has to come from the live form when it appears.

The most recent ballot page carries the title with a Poll Closed marker, meaning the 2025 edition ended before the page was last read. A closed banner is the normal state between editions for a June program like this one, not a sign the program ended.

The Enterprise has also not published, for any edition, a category roster, a ceiling on votes from one person, or eligibility wording for the Brockton-area baseball vote. Because the ballot is a single-player award, those gaps matter less than they would on a multi-category readers-choice page, but a reader planning a campaign should still read the live ballot for whatever conduct language the paper attaches to the next edition.

How a supporter votes in the Enterprise baseball poll today

Voting is literal and mechanical. The ballot page at poll 15632349 on poll.fm is where a supporter starts: read the list of nominated players, select the nominee beside the player's name, and submit. Each nominee appears with his school attached, so a supporter in Brockton or in one of the surrounding towns can find a familiar player by scanning the school labels rather than only the names.

The poll page for the confirmed 2025 edition named nominees from Abington, Avon, Bridgewater-Raynham, Brockton and East Bridgewater, among the Brockton-area schools, which is the shape a supporter should expect again. Individual player names are left off this page because nominees on a high school ballot are minors and deserve that privacy; the live ballot carries the full list when an edition is open.

Because the most recent ballot shows Poll Closed, a supporter arriving today cannot cast a vote for the ended edition. The action that counts is waiting for the paper to open the next Player of the Year ballot, which by the 2025 pattern would be expected around June, and voting while that window is live. The paper does not publish the open date ahead of time, so the practical move is to follow The Enterprise's sports coverage, where the new ballot link appears when voting begins.

Where the Enterprise baseball ballot sits among Massachusetts fan votes

The Brockton-area baseball Player of the Year is one program in a crowded Massachusetts school-sports voting field, and it is useful to see its neighbours to understand what makes it distinct. Within the same publisher's family, the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week runs as a rolling weekly honor, while this seasonal baseball ballot names one overall winner at the end.

Other Massachusetts programs cover similar ground at broader reach: the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week serves its own corner of the state, the statewide Athlete of the Week ballot runs alongside separate baseball and basketball Player of the Week editions, and the Gatorade softball Player of the Year covers the other diamond sport. A reader supporting a Brockton-area baseball player has several of these routes, but only the Enterprise baseball award is scoped to this specific sport and this specific set of towns.

That scoping is the practical difference. A weekly athlete ballot resets constantly, so support there is a week-to-week campaign, while this baseball award concentrates a whole season's worth of community energy into a single June window. Supporters coming from the weekly Enterprise program will recognize the poll.fm format immediately, since both use the same platform and the same one-choice ballot style.

For readers comparing programs across publishers, the statewide athlete of the week ballot and the Gatorade softball award pages describe the wider field.

Strengthening support in the Enterprise baseball vote

Because this ballot is a straightforward public vote on Crowdsignal, support comes down to reach inside the communities the ballot already serves: Brockton, Abington, Avon, Bridgewater-Raynham, East Bridgewater and the neighbouring towns. The single June window means the campaign is short, so supporters who plan sharing before the ballot opens tend to reach more voters than those who start late. Team accounts, school parent groups and local baseball pages are the natural channels, and the paper's own promotion of the poll is the signal to act on. The Enterprise has not published any stated prohibition or allowance for outside vote services on this ballot, so the wording on the live form is what settles the question when it opens; the general background on strengthening a fan-vote campaign is in the votes guide, and the ethics and rules side is covered on the legality page. Anything that involves automated voting tools carries the risk the organizer chooses to penalize, and no outside promise changes what the publisher's own rules allow; check the ballot text, not an assumption, before committing to a method.