A.J. Pierzynski absolutely roasted the Twins amid tumble down AL Wild Card standings

It wasn't that long ago that the Minnesota Twins were within striking distance of a first-round bye, but a horrific losing streak has pushed the team's season to the brink.

Minnesota techincally controls its own destiny down the home stretch of the season, but it doesn't really feel that way. The Twins have won just four of their last 20 games as everything seems to be moving in the wrong direction at the worst possible time.

Only three games separates Minnesota from being on the outside of the playoff picture, something that hasn't seemed to inspire any urgency on the field. Rocco Baldelli held a fiery closed door meeting with the team after getting swept by the Kansas City Royals over the weekend, but the response was a 6-2 loss to the hapless Los Angeles Angles.

Baldelli isn't the only one calling out the Twins. Former catcher A.J. Pierzynski took aim at the team and reiterated points that fans have been shouting about for a month.

A.J. Pierzynski calls out Twins amid losing slump: 'They just look bad'

After the Twins lifelessly lost to the Angels, Pierzynski took the team to task on the latest episode of Foul Territory. He wasn't as brutal

It's not the first time Pierzynski has flamed the Twins, but unlike last time he's boxing the ears of the players in the clubhouse rather than torching ownership for being too cheap to pay for a winning roster.

"I don't know what's going on in Minnesota. They lost their pitching, their bullpen has fallen apart, they can't hit anymore," Pierzynski said. "They just look bad. There's no energy, it just looks like a different Twins team from earlier in the year."

The Twins went from chasing down the Guardians to looking in their rearview like a paranoid Henry Hill at the Red Sox, Tigers, and Mariners. Those three teams are right on Minnesota's heels for a final wild card spot the Twins don't seem interested in holding onto.

Minnesota has a tiebreaker over the Tigers and Mariners, but need to win its final series against the Red Sox to earn some more breathing room.

"Right now those three games [between Boston and Minnesota] are looming very large," Pierzynski said. "At some point Minnesota has to turn it around, don't they?"

The Twins are team being held together by duct tape and bubblegum after injuries and bad ownership decisions helped create the current situation. Carlos Correa, Byron Buxton, and Max Kepler are on the IL, Joe Ryan and Brock Stewart are out for the season, and the team is relying on Triple-A veterans to help them win a playoff race.

There's still enough season left for the Twins to turn things around, but they're dangerously close to spoiling all the good that happened over the summer by sputtering out before they reach the finish line.

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