SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Angel Villalona says he is withdrawing his lawsuit against the San Francisco Giants after the team decided to reinstate him to its farm system.
Villalona had been charged in the September 2009 death of a 25-year-old man at a bar in his Caribbean homeland. He was freed on bond that November after the family of the man he was accused of killing asked a judge in the Dominican Republic to drop the case.
But Villalona was also stripped of his U.S. visa in November that year.
Villalona sued the Giants for $5 million in damages, alleging the team kept him on the inactive list even though he had been cleared of homicide charges.
He tells The Associated Press on Tuesday he plans to return to baseball.
