Freeland (L) At the time Pujols was signed, and first baseman/leftfielder Yoshi Tsutsugo was traded for, the Dodgers’ depth was greatly depleted. Cody Bellinger and Zach McKinstry were in the middle of lengthy injured list stints, and Edwin Ríos was out for the year. The weekend those two deals came together, AJ Pollock strained his hamstring and Corey Seager was hit by a pitch on his hand that would end up costing him over two months. The fill-ins on the Dodgers bench — Luke Raley, Sheldon Neuse, and DJ Peters — weren’t cutting it, so literally anyone who could occasionally punish a fastball down the middle would have been welcome. Tsutsugo didn’t work out, and has since been sent outright off the 40-man roster to Triple-A. But Pujols has