The problem with comparing baseball and football, though I love the Seahawk culture, is that baseball has a much larger lag between training and actual game-time deployment. You also face a diminishing returns issue as well.
Football, you have both specialization of the teams and skills.
This allows for a player to spend a larger amount on a given skill, whether that be instinctual or physicality or forward intelligence.
Because of this, the diminishing returns to training are fairly limited as well.
Baseball, you have to at least execute the 2 or 3 of the 5 major skills to be a successful position player.
You can't just polish defense or base running or power or zone control and expect to be amazing.
The only people who could do that would be the 'natural' skill players like Griffey or Bonds.
And that's before you get to the scouting report.
All that ends up giving you an epic case of diminishing returns to training.
I do think the M's could adopt more of the Seahawks philosophy as an organization, but I think skills like base running and defense might have to come from the player development side.
And even then, you have to weigh the development angles, whether that's having better hitters vs. better power vs. better runners vs. better defenders.
At the end of the day, you probably want to polish a player's best skills, but the M's don't really appear to do that either...