What made anyone think it was rational to pay this guy more than Trout or Judge or Ohtani........ it's just absolutely insane and well nothing in his career showed he was worth all that money...... zero MVPs to show for it in all his career and really just a smug dude who took the Mets for a scam with Scott Boras....... I said it over and over again he probably should have had a 40,000,000 contract or 50,000,000 tops but all the money most were calling for and he was demanding never made sense when you looked at the numbers you were never going to get the return on investment on Soto given that evaluation and he was overvalued.......... I used the WAR-Ratio...... the "experts" just used BS and conventional wisdom
The Kids Real MLB 2025 Top 12 Power Rankings Update May 26th, 2025.......
Based off Total Team WAR, Starting Pitching rotations projections and the WAR-Ratio as a baseline along with other factors and considerations for teams with most likelihood and highest likelihood of making postseason for 2025.......
My Rankings are more accurate and to a lower margin of error when it came to my Regular Season and Post Season Power Rankings in the 2023 season vs the "experts"......they actually reflected performance by teams better than MLB/ESPN/Verlander/The-Ringer.... as good as the "experts" in 2024 and I don't have a full department of people and "professionals" or "experts" like Ken Rosenthal running around a floor of 500 people and a nationwide network of hundreds if not thousands of reporters and journalist..........
It's just me, my WAR-Ratio method and other factors and considerations, basic stats available to everyone and a little bit of calculus along with my Ti-84+ calculator.......thats it......you heard it here first.......
Currently beating the "experts" at MLB/ESPN/MLB on Fox at their own game........ and while they think they are matching me....... pretty much just copying and pasting my methodology based on the WAR-Ratio that I developed...... they may be using the same deck/hand as me but they don't know how to really use it or how to play the cards that I invented and developed to their full potential.........
6 out of 10 of my picks are Post Season ready vs 5 out of 10 from the "experts"....... 7 out of my 12 picks are Post Season ready......
And in my Top 10 vs the "experts" Top 10 Im winning and beating them on a percentage and basic numerical basis with 60% of my top 10 vs 50% of their top 10 and overall a 58% with 7 of my top 12 Post Season ready..........
I'm beating the "experts" and every "expert" on the planet in terms of Baseball on every level regarding my preseason Power Rankings vs the "experts"............
The Kids' Real MLB 2025 Power Rankings ....... Final top 12......... Will update as the season approaches or move the list around but in general once it gets going that doesn't happen unless something big changes......
The Kids Real MLB 2025 Top 12 Power Rankings Update March 14th 2025.....
Based off Total Team WAR, Starting Pitching rotations projections and the WAR-Ratio as a baseline along with other factors and considerations for teams with most likelihood and highest likelihood of making postseason for 2025.......
My Rankings are more accurate and to a lower margin of error when it came to my Regular Season and Post Season Power Rankings in the 2023 season vs the "experts"......they actually reflected performance by teams better than MLB/ESPN/Verlander/The-Ringer.... as good as the "experts" in 2024 and I don't have a full department of people and "professionals" or "experts" like Ken Rosenthal running around a floor of 500 people and a nationwide network of hundreds if not thousands of reporters and journalist..........
It's just me, my WAR-Ratio method and other factors and considerations, basic stats available to everyone and a little bit of calculus along with my Ti-84+ calculator.......thats it......you heard it here first.......
Short Haired 2025 Bichette isn't so bad and is better than Long Haired 2024 Bichette....... but isn't better than 2023 Bichette and prior iterations........ if Bichette can make a push....... the Blue Jays can make a push........
And well I always refer to my Dad vs anyone else when it comes to questions I have about Baseball or insight....... and well he ain't an analytics guy or some fancy statistics or maths guy like me or others....... he just uses his eyes and basic baseball......
And I'll tell you sometimes he surprises me...... he goes "there is something amazing about this guys swing"........ " This guys pitch and movement...... that nasty delivery"...... and he doesn't explain it in a numbers way but on a basic baseball way........ and I tell him well "no duh that's what the analytics say"..... but he doesn't base anything off analytics......
And to me the amazing thing is I can't see that without analytics and my Dad sees it with the naked eye...... and I can as well but nowhere near as good or to the depth or at the level the old man can.
One thing that astonished me about my old man was in 2023 when I did this for the first time and beat all the "experts"....... he kept on brining up the Diamondback....... and he saw something me and none of the "smart" money or stats/analytics fancy tie guys could...... or even the best naturals........
Since the start of 2023 Spring Training my Dad always made a comment or note of the 2023 Diamondbacks and he'd speak highly of them on the level of the Dodgers/Yankees/Braves and other good teams......
I always laughed and said "Dad....... it's the Diamondbacks"........ "Dad...... what are you talking about."......... I kind of despised it when he brought them up and just thought it was naive to think a team like that could make postseason and the Diamondbacks went on to make Playoffs........ and to make the World Series.
This season when the Detroit Tigers come or have come to town in Anaheim my Dad says "Look..... the Angles are playing against the next World Series Champions of 2025."......
A part of me laughs still....... but you know maybe there is something to what the old man says
The Kids Real MLB/Baseball Thread Flashbacks…... Part Deux......
Gaze into the Crystal Ball....
SEE THE FUTURE.............
Early in the season Cole went 6 consecutive starts with an ERA of 1.11 during that same time span for the month of April and this would set the tone for his 2023 AL Cy Young campaign......Cole went on to lead the AL in combined ERA and IP as well going 209 innings with a 2.63 ERA.
While Coles ERA is higher than the NL Cy Young (Blake Snell) Cole doesn't just offer quality he offers 200+ innings to go with it too.
Amongst the only 5 pitchers (Chris Bassit, Miles Mikolas, Zac Gallen, Logan Webb, Gerrit Cole) in the AL/NL and the whole MLB that pitched 200+ innings Cole lead these select group of pitchers in the following categories for the 2023 season:
Before I go on these are pitchers I ranked higher ahead of the "experts" in the whole Billions+ of $ industry....... possibly in the Trillions.......
That won Cy Youngs ranked higher by me than any fucking piece of shit "expert" at MLB/ESPN/MLB on Fox/The Ringer/Ben Verlander and who ever the fuck else with a fancy tie and connections.........
