The Tigers will not have Delmon Young, who hit three home runs against the Yankees in the ALDS, in their best-of-seven series against the Rangers. He aggravated an earlier oblique strain against the Yankees and the Tigers left him off their roster for the ALCS that began Saturday night. Detroit manager Jim Leyland said that even though an MRI "doesn't show anything real significant," the Tigers were taking no chances with Young. "I learned a long time ago when the word oblique is mentioned, I get nervous. ... I've never seen an oblique all right in a day or two. It's never happened as long as I've been managing," Leyland said. "We might have kept him on hoping for maybe Game 4 or 5 or something. But what happens is all of a sudden you used him and he couldn't go and you had to take him off, then he's not available for the next series," he said. "This way, not having him on the roster at the beginning of this series, if he would be ready and if we were fortunate to move on, he could be activated for the World Series."