Wooster Daily Record Baseball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Wooster Daily Record baseball award is and who runs it

The Wooster Daily Record Baseball Player of the Year, a seasonal fan vote organized by The Daily Record, honors a player of the year in high school baseball for the 2026 season. The ballot draws nominees from schools across Wayne and Holmes counties in northeast Ohio.

The vote runs on poll.fm, a Crowdsignal property used widely for newspaper fan ballots. The baseball ballot lives at poll.fm/17132700, and that address is where a supporter lands when the publisher opens the vote for a given baseball season.

The Daily Record is both the organizer and the publisher behind the award; the program name carries the masthead directly. Unlike the weekly athlete ballots several Ohio outlets run, this is an end-of-season honor rather than a rotating weekly award, so the whole baseball community of the Wooster area concentrates its support on a single ballot each summer.

The dated record for the Wooster baseball player of the year ballot

Confirmed editions of the poll run in 2023 and 2026, both tied to the baseball season. The 2023 edition is on the books from the same publisher, which is what marks the program as recurring rather than a single-season experiment.

The 2026 ballot ran from Tuesday, June 23, at 5 a.m. through Friday, June 26, at 5 p.m., a window the publisher advertised for the high school season, and the poll now shows as closed on poll.fm.

The final tally gave the leading nominee 48 percent of the vote on 11,700 votes, the runner-up 44 percent on 10,748, and the trailing nominee shown in the results 2 percent on 604. The spread between the top spots was close; the gap to the rest of the field was not.

The ballot names a player of the year rather than a slate of categories, so no category list applies. The Daily Record prints no vote ceiling and no eligibility terms beside the baseball ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The next baseball ballot is expected in 2027. No opening date for that run has been printed, and the publisher's own voting page is where a new window would appear.

How a supporter votes in the Daily Record baseball poll

Supporting a player is a short sequence. Open the ballot at poll.fm/17132700 while The Daily Record has it live. The page lists that season's nominees, each shown beside a school or town affiliation, so scan for the player your community backs.

Select the choice beside the nominee and submit. The ballot is a plain public poll with no form fields beyond the choice itself, and the page displays running percentages as votes arrive, which is how the 2026 final tally was built.

The ballot prints no account or sign-in requirement. If the address shows a closed poll, as the 2026 baseball ballot does now, the next vote has not opened yet; the publisher opens a fresh ballot for each baseball season, with 2027 the next expected run.

Because the format is a straight popularity vote, a supporter can also ask household members, teammates and local baseball followers to cast their own choices, subject to whatever limits the publisher applies while the window is open.

How the Wooster baseball ballot sits beside its Ohio neighbours

The baseball ballot sits inside a wider Ohio set of reader votes. The Akron-Area High School Athlete of the Week runs weekly across the Akron market, while the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Columbus Dispatch each run their own weekly athlete ballot for their metros. Dayton fields a pair of ballots, one weekly all-sport vote from the Dayton Daily News plus a football-only weekly honor, and Fox 8 adds a television audience with its FNTD Player of the Year Vote.

What separates the Wooster ballot is scope and rhythm. It is an end-of-season baseball award for the Wayne and Holmes county area, run by a local daily newspaper, while most of the neighbours name a weekly honoree across every sport. A supporter following both types will recognize the same poll.fm-style mechanics on several of these pages, but the campaigning rhythm differs: a weekly vote resets each week, while this ballot concentrates everything into a June window.

Readers comparing formats can start with the Akron-Area High School Athlete of the Week or the Fox 8 FNTD Player of the Year Vote to see the weekly shape this seasonal award departs from.

Building support in the Wooster baseball poll while the window is open

Because this ballot is a plain popularity vote, support grows through reach rather than technique. Pass the poll.fm address directly to teammates, families and school groups while the June window is open, since a closed poll accepts nothing. Post the link where local baseball followers already gather, and ask each supporter to pass it along personally rather than relying on a single post. The Daily Record states no position on outside help in the baseball ballot, so the honest reading is the organizer's own framing: this is a community popularity vote, and visible local campaigning is what it is built to reward. For outreach patterns that suit a short seasonal window, see our votes guide.