ESPN: Man who recruited Kendry Morales investigated

Rodney on the rocks? Fernandez, that is.

A former employee of Hendricks Sports Management is being investigated by both the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Coral Springs (Fla.) Police Department about the disappearance of more than $300,000 from the bank account of Los Angeles Angels first baseman Kendry Morales.

Rodney Fernandez, a former employee of Hendricks Sports Management LP who recruited Cuban defectors Morales and Aroldis Chapman to the firm, confirmed earlier this week that he was questioned by the MLBPA in the past week regarding Morales, but denied having taken any money from the player.

Coral Springs Police Department spokesman Joe McHugh said Wednesday that Fernandez is being investigated by his department and that an incident report was filed on Feb. 22, 2010. Fernandez is the only person being investigated at this point, but McHugh said the investigation only officially began this week.

...In an interview Monday with ESPN The Magazine, Fernandez said that money taken out of Morales’ bank account was used for expenses related to Hendricks Sports Management, all of which was done with the approval of firm co-founders Randy and Alan Hendricks. Fernandez also said that the Hendrickses were supposed to reimburse Morales for the money but never did.

“If I’m supposedly the person who took all that money, then how come now I don’t have anything?” he said. “I don’t deserve what is happening.”