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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The Baltimore Orioles declined a $11 million team option on Mark Reynolds. (Al Bello/Getty Images&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Baltimore Orioles declined third baseman Mark Reynolds' $11 million team option for next season, the team announced Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reynolds will receive\u00A0a $500,000 buyout and remains under team control because of the arbitration process. The Orioles have until Nov. 30 to decide whether to sign him to a contract for 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reynolds batted .221 with 23 home runs, 69 RBI in his second season with the club and struck out 159 times in 457 at-bats. Reynolds played his first four seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks, striking out 200 or more times in three of those seasons including a major league record of 223 in 2009.\nhttps://twitter.com/Britt_Ghiroli/status/263677667038097409&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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