Denver – This is where the fun part begins. At least publicly, the Twins maintained that they’d been paying no mind to the chaos in the AL West and AL Wild Card races, because they’d take their present group against anyone in the playoff field. With the dust settled, that opponent will be the Blue Jays — and the Twins are up for that challenge.

This Twins team has the AL’s best record in September, and the second-best since the All-Star break. The Twins have scored 20 percent more runs than anyone else in the Junior Circuit in the season’s final month, which they capped with a 3-2, walk-off loss in 11 innings to the Rockies on Sunday, just their fifth loss in their last 16 games to finish out the regular season.

It’s settled, then: The next time the Twins take the field, it will be at Target Field at 4:30 ET/3:30 CT on Tuesday as the AL’s No. 3 seed, for a best-of-three Wild Card Series against Toronto, the No. 6 seed.

“I think this whole time we stayed pretty, who we play is who we play and there’s nothing we can do to control that,” Ryan Jeffers said. “Every team has their strengths. Every team has their weaknesses. I think we’re a pretty dangerous team, so we’re fine to play whoever we play.”

In many different ways, it’s been an unbelievably deep group effort on both sides of the ball to get the Twins peaking at this point — and case in point: There likely isn’t room on the Wild Card Series roster for Bailey Ober, the pitcher who finished the season with a 3.43 ERA in 26 starts and dialed in for a gem at Coors Field.

“You can tell a story about every single guy on our roster, because they’ve all been productive, good Major League players for us this year,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Everyone stepped out of line for a few weeks this year and took over games and won several games, almost in a row, for us. And everyone kind of took their turn doing that once or twice.

“It’s not normal. It’s been a very abnormal season, but in a good way.”