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At some point I owe Jon at Pro Ball an article on what I think the effects of Dr. Elliott's minor league training program have been and how well it may or may not have worked in the first year.  Seager's a part of it.  I don't think it's coincidental that Seager and Franklin have been terrific - guys who were drafted as baseball rats with limited athleticism and now seem to have upped their future potential significantly.
There's some evidence that working out helps high schoolers develop more batspeed than they had but that it has little to no effect on college players - but that's not with this regimen.  We're developing the evidence on this regimen, and without having talked to their coaches it'll have to be an anecdotal article.
Hopefully I can find some good anecdotes. :)  And I'm glad Seager has done well - now I want to see it in the Southern League.  He and Matt Lawson are competing for the Bloomie role, but any kind of decent power spike from Seager could win him both a roster spot and a shot at starting since he's 2 years younger than Lawson.
You can't judge him on College BABIP though - it's almost always higher, just as standard minor league BABIP is more like .330 than .300 thanks to poorer fielders.  In college those metal bats make it worse.
But I still think he's got a shot to be a Mariner.  Not likely as a starter, but let's see him hit AA first.  And can we PLEASE get out of High Desert sometime soon?
~G