MLB has sent a new CBA proposal to players in a new negotiation to save the 2027 season.

Time is running out for the MLB to avoid a lockout.

The collective bargaining agreement expires at 11:59 pm ET on December 1.

And the owners are expected to lock out the players at that time.

So the MLB has proposed delaying the start of a salary cap until 2028 in its latest CBA proposal, the league announced Tuesday.

The delay will help teams who have too many committments for next season and give them more time to prepare and get their payrolls in order.

“We recognize that clubs will need a full offseason to prepare to operate within the cap and floor system. Therefore, with this offseason already underway, we proposed today to begin the cap and floor system in 2028,” MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said in a statement.

“This proposal would allow a smoother transition into the cap and floor system without delaying key player benefits, including earlier free agency, a $1 million minimum salary, a 30% increase to the pre-arbitration bonus pool, and transactional reform that will reduce roster churn.”

The league also proposed to players a $180.2m salary floor and a $258.2m salary cap.

That’s compared to $171.2m and $245.3m, respectively, in the league’s previous proposal in June.

The latest CBA propsoal would allow a team would be allowed to remain as low as 90 percent of the floor in 2028, which would be $162.8m.

However, teams would have to spent the entire amount of the floor in a three-year period.

There would also be a $1m minimum salary for players with at least two years of service time.

The minimum salary would be $900,000 for all other players.

The MLB is coming off a previous lockout that ended on March 10 before a three-week spring training leading up to Opening Day.

If there is a similarly long lockout, clubs would find it tough to be salary cap-compliant in so little of time.

And the MLB Players Association has continued to insist that it will not OK a salary-cap/floor system.

They’ve instead looked for a revised revenue sharing system that would channel more money from big-market teams to small-market clubs.