MLB’S BIG PLAN

• 78-82 game season would start in July • Regional play means more Yanks vs. Mets

Fans itching to see Jacob deGrom and Aaron Judge in action might get their wish by July. MLB is expected to submit a proposal Tuesday that includes a shorter regular season with games exclusively against regional teams — meaning there could be more Subway Series battles.

MLB is expected to make its first formal proposal to the union, likely on Tuesday, on how it envisions a season could be played, featuring roughly an 80-game regular season and teams playing exclusively in their regions. Commissioner Rob Manfred will hold a conference call with the 30 control people from the teams Monday to run through what is going to be presented to the union. So much remains fluid based on, for example, which teams can play in their parks. But four sources provided an overview of the most likely proposal, which would have spring training 2.0 start in June and last three weeks, with a 78-82 game season opening in early July. There are those in the game who are still holding out for 100 games via more doubleheaders, fewer off-days and perhaps pushing the regular season into October, but one source described that as “a very optimistic, everything going right” scenario. There would be expanded playoffs, no minor league feeder system for this year and, thus, enlarged rosters. The Athletic first reported many of these details. All of this is fragile, however. MLB is still at the mercy that enough state and local governments will permit teams to gather either in their home stadiums, spring sites or somewhere else to allow preparation for a season, much less playing one. One source noted that Canada, for example, currently has a mandatory 14-day quarantine for anyone entering the country and, thus, Toronto would have to likely play its games in its spring home in Dunedin, Fla. MLB still has to demonstrate to the Players Association that it has a plan to keep players safe from the coronavirus. In this proposal, for example, even moving regionally, players would still have to travel by bus or plane and be housed in hotels, and for clubs such as the Marlins and Mariners, there are large distances to cover even staying in their time zones. One way to minimize the travel, a source told The Post, is the potential to have series of as many as six games, allowing a team to complete its season series against a club in that park and not have to travel back to that same site. Plus, MLB is working with teams to minimize the number of people who would be in the stadium and clubhouses.

In addition, the sides will have to agree what occurs if a player or person in contact with the teams tests positive for the virus — does that shut down just the player, the whole team, the whole sport?

Also, the MLB plan will ask the players to take a pay cut because, at least to begin and possibly all season, there will be no fans and, thus, no revenue from ticket sales, parking, concessions and luxury suites. The union has stated the March 26 agreement with MLB covered this area, ensuring the players would receive a prorated total of their salary — about 50 percent in an 80-game schedule. The union has indicated there is no budge in its position on this.

MLB currently is equally inflexible. The commissioner’s office has said the March 26 pact calls for further negotiations about player salaries if there are relocations or no spectators. MLB has said it will lose more money by keeping the pay prorated without fans and is averse to playing games in that situation.

There remain many club executives and agents who remain dubious if a season is going to be played at all as the virus continues to bedevil municipalities and cases grow in certain areas.

Nevertheless, MLB has wanted to be optimistic and try to put together a plan in case it received the proper blessings to move forward because there are so many details that have to be negotiated and finalized that the clock would begin working against the league if it waited for green lights.

And the fact MLB is now going to likely propose playing around half of the 162 games points to two issues, in particular:

1. If MLB has to move back the start of a season further than the beginning of July, it could theoretically have an 80-ish game season in August, September and October and push at least part of the playoffs into November and a neutral site.

2. There is worry about the virus bouncing back in the fall, and MLB would like to stick to a plan, if at all possible, to play the postseason in October. MLB receives the majority of its national TV revenue from the postseason.

Many teams, especially with Florida spring bases, have indicated they would like to hold camps there because the facilities are more conducive to training. The heat in Arizona makes that trickier, and holding spring at home stadiums remains a possibility for many clubs.

The regular-season schedule is expected to be regionalized. So teams would play a lot of games against division foes and then, for example, the Mets would have additional games as nearby as possible, so likely against AL East foes such as the Yankees, Red Sox and Orioles. One source said this is really at the mercy of where teams are allowed to play and when.

Without a minor league feeder system, clubs will have expanded rosters and a taxi squad that will keep training in case reinforcements are needed.

MLB will likely propose the playoff system it was hoping to implement for 2022, which The Post first reported on Feb. 10. That would have the playoffs expand from 10 to 14 teams, allowing — among other items — first-round byes for the teams with the best record in each league, the other division winners and one wild card to pick their opponent and a first round with best-of-three series all played in the team with the best record’s home stadium.