U.S.S. Mariner

U.S.S. Mariner is a sports-based blog that focuses on the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team. It was created in 2002 by authors Derek Zumsteg, David Cameron and Jason Michael Barker. The site features a mixture of sabermetrics and scouting information in analysis of the team.

Zumsteg, a Seattle native, is the author of "The Cheater's Guide to Baseball" [http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/] as well as a former contributing author of the baseball annual and website Baseball Prospectus. He also wrote a weekly "Off the Wall" column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2005 and has had his fiction work published on Escape Pod

Cameron has written extensively for Baseball Prospectus, The Hardball Times and various other publications, both on-line and in print. He is also a scheduled weekly guest of "The Groz" on KJR AM radio in Seattle, WA at 2:20 pm every Friday.

Barker is the creator of the Cooking with Jason blog and was previously a contributor to Grand Salami Magazine and StrikeThree.com.

Among the notable accomplishments of the site:
*Coining the nickname "King Felix" for the Seattle Mariners pitching phenomenon Félix Hernández.
*An "open letter" to Mariners' pitching coach Rafael Chaves about Hernandez's pitch selection that was cited as an influence in Hernandez altering his pitch selection. [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/2007/07/hernandez_keys_40_win.html]

External links

* [http://www.ussmariner.com USSMariner.com]
* [http://www.seattleweekly.com/2004-03-31/news/the-new-bleacher-bums.php The New Bleacher Bums - Seattle Weekly]
* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/225884_offwall26.html Off the Wall - Seattle P-I]
* [http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2351 Prospecting David Wright - Baseball Prospectus]