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Or Kennedy, if you prefer:  get your 90 OPS+ out of him at multiple positions, 2B, 3B, SS in a pinch...
Can he be the full-time 3B?  Sure, he could be.  I think it's like David Bell where you'd rather have him at 2B, but Seager has always struck me as a mentally tough kid.  He's the kind of guy who grits out a 10 year major-league career.
But he's been rushed to the bigs.  This is not his top end.  Just because I have him as a good team guy, a #5 IF, a bench warrior who can sub for any infield starter who gets injured...
Doesn't mean that's where he's aimed at or confined to.  Kevin Seitzer works as a higher-end comp.  Not having watched the majority of Seitzer's career, Seager strikes me as having a very Jeff-Cirillo skillset: 35 doubles, 10 HRs, .8 batting eye, and hitting for a higher average than you might think.  Mentally tough Jeff Cirillo hitting from the correct side of the plate for the park sounds fine to me.
The Brewers version of Cirillo was fabulous.  Seager's productivity would likely bop around with his average, a la Ichiro (or a guy like Joe Randa if you want to talk about earthlings), but there are worse problems to have. 
~G