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I'm seeing different numbers:
Saunders = .326
Ackley = .292
Ichiro = .281
Montero = .269
Smoak = .215
Seager = .212
Only the Smoak and Seager numbers are "worrisome" IMO.
In looking at 2011 ... Smoak ran a .246 home and .295 road BABIP.
In looking at 2011 ... Seager ran a .242 home and .349 road BABIP.
Just FYI ...
Smoak's BABIP for his 225 PAs in Arlington is ... .250
Smoak's BABIP for his 398 PAs in Safeco is ... .245
My opinion of Smoak is unchanged, (I continue to believe he was always overrated as a hitter ... but was hoping to be proven wrong).
Seager is the one that I'd be concerned with. But, since he has way less time in the Bigs, I'm willing to entertain the notion that this might just be learning pains, (perhaps pressing just a tad at home). Lots of eventual star players run crappy BABIPs in their first taste of the Majors. If the BABIP read is still horrid after a thousand PAs ... it won't likely be improving. (Smoak's career BABIP is .264 after 1128 PAs).