Minnesota's issues run the other direction — it's not about getting healthy for a push, it's about how many bodies are left standing at all. The Twins have already shut down or shelved five different starting pitchers this season, and Byron Buxton's hip impingement has been serious enough that the front office has floated offseason surgery.
These two meet three times in Chicago this week, with Friday and Saturday's games still to be played before this one, so nothing about how that set has gone is settled yet. What is settled is the bigger picture: Minnesota sits under .500 at 67-73 with a season that stopped being about the standings weeks ago, while Chicago has pushed to 73-66 in a turnaround few outside the organization saw coming after three straight 100-loss years.
White Sox GM Chris Getz has been blunt with his young roster about not letting the standings change how they play, which says plenty about how unfamiliar this position is for a group that spent the last three Septembers picking through prospects rather than a division race. For the Twins, Sunday is just another data point in a lost year — a chance to see what the roster looks like once the noise of contention is gone.