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'Bring the noise:' Derek Hill's six-year odyssey leads him, at last, to the big leagues

Milwaukee – What a phone call it must've been. So what if it took longer than he'd ever thought.

Sometime either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, Derek Hill, the Tigers' first-round pick in 2014, called his father and told him he was going to the Show. Man, all the times he wondered if he'd ever get to make that call.

“It feels amazing,” said Hill, who was added to the active roster to replace center fielder JaCoby Jones, who broke a bone in his left hand Tuesday. “Just to be able to share this with my family and everybody.