The real Major League Baseball labor battles won't start until the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires on Dec. 1, but the opening salvos have already been fired and the initial conversations have been started.

On Thursday, Major League Baseball fired another proposal off, one that remains contingent on the implementation of a salary cap and salary floor. 

Let's take a look at some of the key pieces and how it would impact the Toronto Blue Jays.

Major League Baseball had a 154-game season until 1960, so this is not unprecedented. 

Under this proposal, baseball teams would be off on Monday's, for the most part, with the exception of 1-2 games being nationally broadcast on Monday's.

How it impacts the Blue Jays:

Well, less overall games and more off days is a good way to keep players healthier. More players healthy means your better players playing more often, which makes your team better. It also means less wear and tear on your bullpen and less roster moves as a result. The Blue Jays were one of the most heavily impacted teams this season by injuries.

How it impacts player salaries

Less games means less chances to accumulate stats, which is typically bad for player contracts. However, if there is a cap, players receive a fixed portion of the league revenue, making this not as big a deal.

How does it impact fans?

Well, with eight fewer games in a schedule, presumably four of them would come out of the home schedule. That would give fans more urgency to get to the ballpark, and yes, there's a chance that the revenue lost from the four games could be made up by increasing prices at the park.

With the team generally off on Monday, there would be fewer afternoon games to attend, which should make going to games just a little bit easier.

How it impacts the league

Less games overall means less in-stadium revenue, but if they are able to have standalone broadcast windows on Monday's, the league can make some of that revenue back. It also means that records will be harder to break, which will make statistical achievement harder to hit, reducing the chance to see record books altered.

*This would take place beginning in 2029.

Another way for the league to make more revenue is by turning the division series into a seven-game series from a five-game series. More games in this round would also help create less afternoon playoff games, which is better from a revenue standpoint too.

How it impacts the Jays

Well, should they get to the playoffs, there are more playoff games to win, which means more pitching is needed. Pitching depth becomes even more vital from a roster development standpoint.

*This would take place beginning in 2029.

And this one is the one that will ignite the most vitriol from fans.

In the wild card round, the team that finishes as the No. 3 seed (the Houston Astros this year in the AL), would get a choice of who it plays in the wild card round between the No. 5 seed (Boston Red Sox) and No. 6 seed (Chicago White Sox).

The team not chosen would have played the No. 4 seed New York Yankees.

In the division series, the No. 1 seed would get to choose which wild card winner it wants to play.

*This would take place beginning in 2027.

All this is contingent on a salary cap and salary floor. So, whatever you like or dislike? It doesn't matter much right now, since the players say they will never agree to such a thing.