The Twins are aware of the history, if only because it keeps getting brought up to them.

They can sense the fans back home in Minnesota are worried about their ALDS series against the Yankees — who have beaten the Twins in every playoff series between the two teams, winning 13 of 15 games — but they also know they largely have nothing to do with it.

“I was trying to figure out how to get a higher ACT score to get into college the last time these teams played,” closer Taylor Rogers said Thursday, pointing to the 2010 ALDS and not including the 2017 wild-card game. “I know that Twins fans have a lot of memories, but we don’t. So I think we’re going in with a fresh slate, clean slate, and it’s a very positive slate.”

Only nine members of the Twins’ 2017 playoff roster will be back at Yankee Stadium on Friday. Nobody is still around from the 2010 squad that got swept by Brett Gardner and the Yankees.

So while the Twins have heard plenty about what the Twins of old did — or didn’t do — against the Yankees in past Octobers, they know there is only one thing they can do to change the narrative.

“Something is a thing until it isn’t,” said reliever Trevor May, one of the longest-tenured Twins. “You come out with a series win, then everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s over.’ Same way that when the Red Sox came back against these guys [down] 3-0 in ’04, same way the Cubs won the World Series by blowing the lead and then coming back and winning — then it was just over. Nobody talked about it anymore.

“But at the same time, I like to think about it as we have an opportunity — it feels extra good when you accomplish it.”

In their four previous ALDS meetings, the Yankees have swept twice, in 2009 and 2010. Twins manager Rocco Baldelli was still playing back in those days, so he wasn’t losing much sleep over the past.

“For people that are sitting at home, grab a drink and put your feet up and enjoy,” Baldelli said. “It’s going to be a fun series.”