Blue Jays vs. Twins: Everything you need to know about the AL wild-card series

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.

Jose Berrios (11-12, 3.65), Chris Bassitt (16-8, 3.60), or Yusei Kikuchi (11-6, 3.86) could also take the mound in the series.

Interesting stat: The Blue Jays were the only team to have four pitchers (Gausman, Bassitt, Kikuchi, Berrios) start at least 31 games this season. No other team had more than two pitchers hit that mark.

Number of pitchers with 31+ starts this year:<br><br>4 - TOR<br>3 - 0 teams<br>2 - PHI ATL PIT MIN SEA BAL NYY<br>1 - 11 teams<br>0 - 11 teams <a href="https://t.co/dWvLHMU7Rb">pic.twitter.com/dWvLHMU7Rb</a>

Twins: Minnesota boasts a pair of all-star pitchers in Pablo Lopez (11-8, 3.66) and Sonny Gray (8-8, 2.79) that have garnered some Cy Young buzz this year.

The projected Game 1 starter Lopez trails only Gausman in the AL for strikeouts, while projected Game 2 starter Gray sits behind only Yankees ace Gerritt Cole and Padres pitcher Blake Snell in ERA league-wide.

Pablo López's 234 strikeouts are 60 more than his