DETROIT -- The Tigers signed Casey McGehee at the start of Spring Training for this type of situation, to have a veteran Major Leaguer ready to step in if they suffered a corner-infield injury.
McGehee, a veteran of 821 Major League games across seven different teams, stuck around when he had chances to leave -- at the end of Spring Training and again in midseason after a June weekend stint with the Tigers as a pinch-hitter -- to be that veteran who could step in.
Thus, when Nick Castellanos left Saturday's game with a fractured bone in his left hand, the first move was to pull McGehee from the Triple-A Toledo lineup and get him on the road from Indianapolis -- where the Mud Hens were playing -- to Detroit.