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McGehee’s 4-hit night a testament to determination
- Updated: August 14, 2016
ARLINGTON — This is why Casey McGehee spent four months in Toledo.
“Every win’s important,” McGehee said after his four-hit game in Saturday night’s 2-0 Tigers win at Texas. “And to be able to do anything to help win, that’s where the satisfaction lies. This isn’t the time of year for personal accolades, look at this, look at that. It’s all about wins and losses.”
It’s also about opportunities.
He could’ve signed somewhere else at the end of Spring Training, having earned an opt-out when he signed a Minor League deal around the start of Spring Training, and shopped his eight years of Major League experience. He could’ve asked out when the Tigers designated him for assignment in June after calling him up for one pinch-hit appearance in Kansas City.
He stuck around at Triple-A and waited for his time. He wasn’t wishing for injury, certainly nothing like the fractured thumb that befell tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos. He was just waiting for a chance to carry over what he was doing at Toledo, where he was second in the International League in hitting.
“I’d be lying to you if I told you there weren’t days that were tough,” McGehee said. “I can’t praise [Toledo manager] Lloyd [McClendon] and [coaches] Bull [Durham] and …
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