The Oakland Athletics' longtime strength and conditioning coach has admitted to installing a hidden camera in his team's weight room at Oakland Alameda Coliseum to spy on players, sources told Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports - an invasion of privacy that prompted the club to suspend him and hire an independent investigator to look into the case.

According to the findings of the investigation, which will be presented to Oakland's players on Monday, Michael Henriques - now in his fifth season as the club's strength and conditioning coach - set up the camera July 24, hours before the A's left for a 10-day road trip, to watch players working out and rehabbing injuries while the club was on the road. The following afternoon, one A's player discovered the camera and told union representative Sean Doolittle, who then took the camera to management.

Henriques - who had been on the road with the team - was shortly thereafter ordered to return to Oakland, and apologized to the players before returning.

Reportedly "furious" at the invasion of privacy, executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane suggested hiring the independent investigator after notifying Major League Baseball of the camera. The investigation was monitored by the league's department of investigations, as well as the players' association.

"This was the misguided action of one employee," said Beane. "We hired an independent investigator. While the employee's intentions were good, his judgment was very poor."