Injuries Aren't Inevitable
What if your top pitching prospects, the guys you spent huge money to scout and sign, continued to develop injury-free, becoming the Major League workhorses you thought they’d become? Our work is predictive. We produce hundreds of detailed, accurate risk evaluations every year so you can sleep better knowing that you're scouting, drafting and signing pitchers who carry a lower chance of being wiped out by injury.
Future injury probability should be a part of every team's decision-making. Our value-add is reduced frustration and DL time, and a wider, healthier talent pool of durable pitchers competing up and down your organization.
We Get Results
Our results are very strong, and they've won over even our most skeptical partners. Over the last four draft years, pitchers that we rated at high risk have experienced major surgery at a ratio of 9 to 1 relative to pitchers that we rated at low risk. Results in the intermediate risk categories are also linear. Contact us to discuss our results in greater detail.
A Track-Record of Success with 1000s of Pitchers Evaluated
Our ML partner organizations know which pitchers are most and least likely to experience injury. They invest top dollars in lower risk pitchers, and leave everyone else with the injury busts.
Co-founder Michael Witte worked as St. Louis Cardinals' risk evaluator for five years from 2005 through 2009 before leaving to start Classic. In that time, the Cardinals produced more Major Leaguers through the draft relative to any other team in baseball. Classic now works with eight Major League organizations. As we've grown, each of our teams has continued to engage us, expressing deep satisfaction with our service and professionalism. We have 100% client retention going into our fifth year.
Pitcher Health is Important. Very Important.
Did you know: Between 2001 and 2010 a total of 149 pitchers were selected within the first 30 picks of the amateur draft. The outcomes and career trajectory of those pitchers is dramatic when the group is separated into two categories:
Did Not Experience Surgery Before Age 26: 5,800+ ML Games Started, 540 WAR
Did Experience Surgery Before Age 26: 1,100+ ML Games Started, 50 WAR
All the way up and down the draft, good health is the key to finding future, cost-controlled Major League pitching and sustained organizational success.
