The Seager footage really does clarify what I thought was Seager's power problem in college.
Both Ackley and Seager have a lack of loading that can be worked on. Ackley has the faster bat, but if you watch Seager's hands and shoulders, he doesn't load AT ALL. He just brings the bat forward.
No obliques, no hands, no shoulders. His swing is anti-power. If he has to do that because his bat can't catch up to fast pitching with slower wood bats, that's fine, he'll never have power. but some hand-load and torque would do a lot to fix his punch-n-judy approach.
Now, I said the same thing about Mangini needing to fix his hip weight-shift in order to find some power, and he's either never done it or I was flat wrong about that being his issue.
But it does look to me like a correctable problem that's creating Seager's lack of power. His body's not topped out - it's his pre-swing that's preventing him from accessing everything he has.
Lookin forward to seeing if he can find a little pop as he comes up through the system, or if Bloomquist is his upper range.
I think it's the former, which makes it fun. :)
~G