@skysanji:
I know it is not your intention but your argument is basically this: Lowballing Cracker by arguing that Cracker is at Luffy's level, mentioning Luffy's babyshake at the hands of Yonko Kaido means Yonko can babyshake commanders as well, then compare the treatment admirals would get against a Yonko and since Raileigh can be considered admiral level in performance that means that Raileigh stomps Cracker.
Now your thread of reasoning here does have a line of thought that can be considered reasonable and logical, but I will argue that this line of reason is shallow in fundation and that the gap between admiral and commander drastically closes once we dig in to the details of your argument and bring in context.
First thing first current Luffy < Sweet Commanders less we forget that Nami carried Luffy through the entire Cracker fight and that Katakuri only lost his overwhelming advantage in his brawl against Luffy only after 2 plot points which drastically reduced Katakuri's performance in battle. Luffy has never been on par with sweet commanders on his own two feet and to rub some salt on Luffy let us not forget that Luffy did need large amounts of help against Doflamingo as well.
The way Luffy was oneshotted by Kaido was nasty yes but to imply admirals wouldnt get done in like Luffy at the hands of Kaido does not say much because we cannot be certain what treatment Admirals get from Yonko. Admirals would not get the Luffy treatment sure, but see we already we have a situation of how Yonko deal with admirals. In Marineford we got to see how the weakest Yonko Whitebeard (weakest at the time due to his declining health and old age) treated Akainu who in contrast is the strongest admiral despite Whitebeard's fresh wounds and to sum it up Akainu was ragdolled MCU Hulk vs Loki style by Whitebeard.
Back to Kaido I want to emphasize that Kaido can arguably still be considered to be in his prime by his looks and he is hyped to be the single strongest 1v1 figther in the world of One Piece right now. I am fairly certain Whitebeard could ragdoll current Luffy like he did Akainu withou use of his devil fruit and on the same token Kaido would severely beat down a admiral if Kaido met and saw an admiral as the meddling ant that thwarted a part of his buisness and came to make a scene in his home turf in Wano.
To further expand on this I want to also mention that Raileigh although never overpowered by Kizaru did show signs of exhaustion against Kizaru in their clash. By this I want to remind you all that in terms of DC, power and strength Akainu is superior to Kizaru by a visible margin, for Akainu to be overpowered by Whitebeard I am sure the same would happen but worse to Raileigh.
Ultimately we also have a canon comparison between Yonko commanders and admirals back on the days of the Marieford War; Marco, Jozu and Ace all displayed some form of equal footing against admirals and besides Ace the commanders only recieved serious damage because they were distracted by Whitebeard's heart issues in a time of dire crisis.
Unless you believe Big Mom's 3 Sweet commanders to be much weaker than Whitebeard's top 3 commanders (Vista can be said to be stronger than Ace though but that will vary depending on the users's individual's opinion) I do not see Cracker just being spanked by an admiral much less Raileigh who is much less resilient to drawn-out fights.
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