Over at MLB FanHouse, Matt Watson picks up on a Keith Law comment that Vicente Padilla has a drinking problem. This issue was actually addressed back in 2004 by Kevin Roberts. Padilla was involved in a car crash:

Padilla was already in the major leagues before he really started getting guidance and structure from the Phillies. Has he made some missteps along the way? Sure. What young kid hasn't?

The thing is, not every young kid has the kind of lightning arm hanging from Padilla's right shoulder. He can be legitimately great, and the Phillies need him to be great. So they're looking out for him.

That doesn't mean Padilla is a bad guy, or that the story in El Nuevo Diario wasn't totally unfair. It was. It absolutely doesn't mean Padilla has a drinking problem. It just means that he's going through just exactly the normal cultural adjustments for a Latin American kid who rushed into the big leagues maybe before he was the finished package mentally and emotionally.

So this is an old story that hasn't been talked about for a while.