“This is a hard game to play well, a hard game to play well at the highest levels. It’s even harder when there are distractions off the field; things that players, perhaps, don’t know how to handle off the field. So the MVP program is designed to give players some tools to handle situations that they may come into off the field, and ultimately to allow the focus to be on the field…It’s been a great program, and we’ve had great success with it…we can see our players actively engaging in concepts and using the concepts throughout the course of the year.”

Ben Cherington, Vice President / Player Personnel, Boston Red Sox