The Toronto Blue Jays return to the MLB post-season for a second consecutive year, and now they know who they'll be up against.
The Minnesota Twins will host the Blue Jays for their best-of-three American League wild-card series beginning on Tuesday. Here's everything you need to know about how the teams stack up ahead of Game 1. Blue Jays: For a team that was supposed to be an offensive juggernaut, Toronto can thank their pitching for pulling them back into the post-season.
Kevin Gausman (12-9, 3.16 ERA) is expected to start in Game 1. The right-hander's premier pitch is his splitter (a split-finger fastball).
Thrown like a traditional fastball, a change in grip makes the ball sharply drop as it approaches home plate and leaves batters chasing a pitch that is out of the strike zone.