Angel Miguel Villalona (born August 13, 1990) is a Dominican Republic professional baseball first baseman.
[1][2] In August 2006, the San Francisco Giants gave Villalona a club-record $2.1 million signing bonus.
[3] In 2007, they assigned him to extended spring training with the idea of sending him to rookie or short-season ball later in the minor league season.
Villalona played 2008 with the Augusta GreenJackets of the Single–A South Atlantic League, and was named to the 2008 All-Star Futures Game.
The Giants reported on February 8, 2013, that Villalona's visa to come to the United States had been approved, and that once he arrived at their spring training camp at Scottsdale, the team would apply to the league for his reinstatement from the restricted list.
[10][11] On September 20, 2009, the Dominican Republic police announced that Villalona was a suspect in the murder of Mario Felix de Jesus Velete.
According to USA Today, the prosecutor said that the "his star witness, a friend who accompanied the deceased person to the bar, disappeared after Villalona paid the victim's family to avoid a civil lawsuit".