If you're the Orioles it isn't. Without that they lose everything they ever had pre-2005.
I don't like the idea of arbitration being expanded because one party made a bad deal with a third party- if the point of the reset is to give the nats something approaching fair market value, it shouldn't matter if MASN promised to match the deal for the Os. It would be like a star player going into salary arbitration and having the team say, we'd love to pay you that, but we promised the bullpen catcher a salary equal to yours
