Former Gov. Jon Corzine, left, and former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, second from left, unveil the MLB Network Plaza street sign inside the new MLB Network studios in Secaucus in Feb. 2009.The "loggers" at MLB Network in Secaucus are helping redefine how baseball history and data is collated and stored.
Major League Baseball's digitized archives are collected by a team who watch every game as it airs - 2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason – and complete computerized notes, The New York Times reports. The old system of storing videotapes on a shelf became outmoded.
When the 140,000-square-foot facility that once housed MSNBC opened in February of 2009, about 350 employees started work and earned an average of $115,000 a year. MLB Productions and sibling MLB Network share infrastructure and facilities in Secaucus. Former Gov. Jon S. Corzine and then-Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell designated the street "MLB Network Plaza" at the time.
Most of the uses for the system are currently in-house and cannot be accessed by fans, the newspaper reports. MLB Productions built the system and has used it since last year. The logging pit contains 18 work stations outside the main control center for the MLB Network.