Super Eight Most Valuable Player

The Super Eight Most Valuable Player is an award for the best individual performance during the Super Eight in Brockton, Massachusetts. The recipient of the award is announced at the completion of the Super Eight Championship Game. The award is similar to Major League Baseball's World Series Most Valuable Player award.

Super Eight Most Valuable Player
Awarded forBest player in the Super Eight
CountryUnited States
First awarded2014
Currently held byScott Creedon, Braintree

Since 2014, the winner of the award has received a wooden bat engraved with the award title.[1] Nobody has yet to win the award from the losing team of the Super Eight Baseball Tournament. The Super Eight started in 2014, and the award has been given out every year, from the start.

Braintree's Scott Creedon became the first and only player to win back-to-back MVP Awards. In 2016, Creedon was also named ESPNBoston Mr. Baseball for best player in the state throughout the season.

Voting process

The press attending and covering the tournament vote on the Most Valuable Player during the game. The award is distributed by ESPNBoston.com[2] The Most Valuable Player is announced following the awarding of trophies to the runner-up and championship teams. If a second game of the championship series is necessary, the ballots taken during the second game are discarded, and a new round of balloting is conducted during the third and deciding game.

List
Key
Year Links to the article about that corresponding Super Eight
 Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
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 Indicates team did not win the tournament
Winners
Year Name Position School
2014 Dylan Sbordone Pitcher Newton North
2015 Scott Creedon Pitcher/Shortstop Braintree
2016 Scott Creedon Pitcher/Shortstop Braintree
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See also

References
  1. "Braintree's Scott Creedon is 2016 ESPNBoston Mr. Baseball". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  2. "North's Sbordone is ESPN Boston's Super 8 MVP". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
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