{"id":1844,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1844","headline":"MLB offers to delay salary cap start to 2028","dek":"With the current labor deal expiring December 1, the league's latest proposal keeps a cap and floor system but raises the thresholds and pushes implementation back a year.","body":"Major League Baseball has sent a new proposal to the players' union as the two sides try to hammer out a replacement for the collective bargaining agreement before it expires on December 1. The headline changes from the league's previous offer are an increased threshold for both the salary cap and salary floor, plus a delay in implementation until the 2028 season.\n\nThat delay would give teams a full season to get their books in order before the cap and floor become mandatory, a concession that suggests the league is trying to ease the transition rather than abandon the concept altogether. The core structure, a hard cap paired with a mandatory floor, remains intact from earlier proposals.\n\nNovember is normally a quiet stretch for baseball news, filled with option decisions, qualifying offers and roster paperwork rather than labor drama. This year that routine business is shadowed by the looming deadline, since any bigger offseason moves depend on whether a new deal gets done. Whether this proposal moves talks forward or just resets the clock on the same disagreements is still unclear, with December 1 approaching fast.","published_at":"2026-11-04T23:33:22.238429+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Orioles news: MLB sends latest CBA proposal","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/orioles-news-mlb-sends-latest-120000116.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"MLB proposes delaying salary cap in new negotiations as Dec. 1 CBA expiration inches nearer","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-cba-proposal-salary-cap-delay-2028/"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Guide to MLB's labor battle: Will there be a lockout? A salary cap?","url":"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50370123/lockout-salary-cap-cba-labor-battle-faq"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Defector","publisher":"Defector","title":"Major League Baseball’s New Salary Cap Proposal Is As Shady As Its Old One","url":"https://defector.com/major-league-baseballs-new-salary-cap-proposal-is-as-shady-as-its-old-one"}],"image":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/98322c0cb93b51d99757b8ae726d8adbcf725193b1eaccb945a0f0f88e21fa5e/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fsb_nation_articles_115%2Fd0049e4ea981a54a5e0449089ff553ec.jpg","credit":"Yahoo Sports","width":1200},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}