According to Billy Beane, the A’s executive vice president of baseball operations, the actions of the employee were “misguided” and that even though the employee was “good”, his judgment was “very poor”.
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Yahoo Sports reports that the camera had been placed there by strength and conditioning coach Michael Henriques, who wanted to keep an eye on rehabbing and injured players while he was away with the rest of the team. An independent law firm hired by the team is scheduled to present its findings to the players on Monday.
Michael Henriques admitted to installing the camera on July 24 for the goal of monitoring the workouts of rehabilitating players while the team was on the road. “We hired an independent investigator”.
The camera was discovered by a player on July 25, one day after the A’s left on a nine-game road trip.
The A’s said Friday that there is an ongoing investigation. The following day, a player found the camera in a box, notified pitcher and team union representative Sean Doolittle, who approached the front office with the discovery.
Brown noted that Henriques “would be allowed to continue as the team’s strength and condition coach in a probationary capacity, as his actions were not deemed to be malicious”.
A’s management then told Henriques to return to Oakland, but he promptly apologized to the players before doing so, Brown reports. Doolittle was notified of the situation and took the issue to management.
Beane and team president Michael Crowley are among those who used the weight room with the camera running.
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Cameras in any sort of private areas represent such a breach of trust that, per Brown, one team with a theft problem requested permission to install a small camera in its clubhouse.
