Yankees-Twins: The parsley of playoff matchups. You question the very worthiness of its existence.

Unless, just maybe, this time it acquires some flavor?

The Yankees took their last day off of the regular season Thursday under the reality they were headed for a sixth postseason showdown with the baseballers from Minnesota. One more Astros win, potentially as soon as Thursday night against the Angels, or one more Yankees loss this weekend at Texas, and the Yankees-Twins American League Division Series matchup, set to begin Oct. 4 in The Bronx, would become official — as would the Astros’ home-field advantage in the AL Championship Series, no small thing.

Those groans you hear throughout the baseball universe emanate from this: The Yankees and Twins have played each other in 15 postseason games, scattered over five autumns from 2003 through 2017. The Yankees have won 13 of those games, including 10 in a row, and are 5-for-5 in advancing past their neighbors to the northwest.

If you root for the Yankees, naturally, all of this data pleases you and you root for history to repeat itself. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it did. Nor would it remotely surprise me, however, if these Twins prove to be a considerably tougher opponent than their predecessors and we get ourselves a bona fide series.

Next week, I’ll grow a spine, choose a side and cast a prediction. For now, though, let’s identify four reasons why Yankees-Twins VI could bring us more of the same and four more reasons why this could be the reboot desired by both Twins fans and neutral parties.

Deja vu: Payroll disparity. The Yankees will spend about $218 million on player talent this season, as per spotrac.com, whereas the Twins committed just under $125 million. That’s a differential of $93 million, or three Manny Machados plus a Matt Adams.

Vuja de*: Twins power. The past Twins teams just couldn’t keep up with the Yankees when it came to changing the game with one swing. The closest previous regular-season homer gap between these clubs occurred in 2017, when the Yankees went deep 241 times and the Twins 206. Through 159 games this season, however, the Twins have gone deep 301 times, an all-time record, and the Yankees 299.

(*Vuja de, you surely know, is what legendary comedian George Carlin described as “that strange feeling that somehow, none of this has ever happened before.”)

Deja vu: Yankees bullpen. In their 15 prior postseason games, the Yankees have blown only two late-inning leads to the Twins. This Yankees relief corps is similarly elite, if not more so.

Vuja de: Twins bullpen. Minnesota’s relievers, including perennial All-Star Joe Nathan, never have corralled the Yankees. While this unit lacks big names, it had produced 6.7 wins above replacement, as per FanGraphs, through Wednesday, placing it third overall behind the Yankees and Rays (both at 7.6).

Deja vu: Twins starting pitching. The Twins’ rotation gets topped by the interesting Jake Odorizzi and Jose Berrios, and it gets pretty lean from there, thanks to former Yankee Michael Pineda’s suspension for illegal performance-enhancing drugs usage. The Twins’ strong bullpen could get more of a workout than it desires.

Vuja de: Twins road excellence. After Thursday’s 10-4 pounding of the Tigers, the Twins own a 53-25 record in away games, the best road winning percentage by far of any club in the majors. So perhaps they won’t be fazed by the Stadium, even in October.

Deja vu: Past is prologue. The Yankees prevailed, 4-2, in their season series with the Twins. The Yankees have won every season series against these guys since 2006, when they split six games, and they haven’t dropped one since 1992, their last losing year, when they went 5-7.

Vuja de: Twins intelligence. The Twins were one of the last clubs to fully embrace analytics, and even two years ago, when their analytically inclined front office, headed by Derek Falvey and Thad Levine, was in place, their inherited manager Paul Molitor took them to the wild-card game against the Yankees. Now Falvey and Levine have enjoyed three years to implement their philosophies and their roster as well as their own skipper in Rocco Baldelli. Can that help spice up this vanilla rivalry?