Troy Lee Neel (born September 14, 1965) is a former professional baseball player. After a solid start in Major League Baseball, Neel moved to Japan and compiled strong numbers in six seasons playing Nippon Professional Baseball.

Neel was born in Freeport, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University before his professional baseball career.

Neel played in the major leagues for the Oakland Athletics primarily as a first baseman and designated hitter from 1992 to 1994.

Moving to Japan, he had a successful baseball career for the Orix BlueWave, playing with them for six seasons from 1995 until 2000.

Neel was the Most Valuable Player in the 1996 Japan Series, as the BlueWave defeated the Yomiuri Giants 4-games-to-1. Neel had 6 RBI in the Series.

Neel finished his professional baseball career in 2001 playing with the Doosan Bears in Korea.

Neel has been married at least two times.

In 2000, Neel was ordered by the State of Texas to pay $5,000 a month in child support to his ex-wife who is the mother of his two children, a son and daughter. Instead of paying, Neel fled the country and played baseball in Japan.

After retiring from athletics, the remarried Neel purchased a 16-acre 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m²) island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, where he and his wife ran a 21-room resort which cost a reported $1.5 million overlooking a lagoon Called "the worst dead beat dad in 'the history of Texas'", he owed over $725,000 in child support, ultimately determined to be $778,000. In 2005, a grand jury in San Antonio indicted Neel on a charge of foreign travel to evade child support obligations.

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