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The Dodgers have signed three of their 2026 MLB Draft selections — Miles Gosztola, Aemed Nasser, and Ethan Sutton — to over-slot deals, per Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline. All three agreements come despite the Dodgers operating with a reduced bonus pool and fewer picks, penalties tied to the organization’s repeated trips past the luxury tax threshold. That the front office still found ways to overpay relative to slot tells you exactly how they view these players.

Gosztola is an intriguing get. College arms who fall to later rounds because of signability concerns are exactly the kind of targets the Dodgers’ draft room loves to chase. Getting him to an over-slot deal suggests the organization sees legitimate upside worth paying up for, even with a diminished war chest. The Dodgers have built a pipeline that consistently develops pitching — look at the trajectories of guys like Bobby Miller, Landon Knack, and others who came through the system in recent years — and Gosztola could be the next name to track on that conveyor belt.

Nasser is another interesting addition. The Dodgers have a long track record of identifying position-player talent in the middle and later rounds, players who may not have the loudest tools on draft day but who profile well in their development infrastructure. An over-slot commitment to Nasser signals genuine conviction from the scouting department that he has tools worth betting on. Getting a prospect like this locked in quickly, rather than risking him heading back to school or to another program, is smart business.

Sutton rounds out the trio. Again, over-slot money for a player the Dodgers clearly prioritized. The front office has shown year after year that they treat the draft less as a rigid slotting exercise and more as a value hunt — finding players they believe are undervalued by the market and paying what it takes to bring them into the fold. Sutton fits that mold, and the willingness to stretch financially for all three of these picks speaks to how the organization views its farm system as a critical long-term asset, even as it chases championships in the present.

From a big-picture perspective, this matters beyond just the individual players. We’ve heard all the deadline chatter about the Dodgers’ deep prospect haul potentially fueling trades — and that remains true at the upper levels of the system. But restocking at the bottom through the draft, even a restricted one, is how you sustain a pipeline that can both produce major league contributors and serve as trade currency. The Dodgers were limited in this draft cycle, no question. But locking up three over-slot deals shows they’re still aggressive about squeezing every bit of value out of every pick they do have. That’s the kind of organizational discipline that separates consistently elite franchises from teams that just get lucky for a year or two. I like the approach, even if we won’t see these names in Dodger Blue for a while.

Source(s): Jim Callis (MLB Pipeline) | Staff (Dodger Blue) | First reported: July 26, 2026 4:32 PM UTC

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