Joey,
I have not heard anything about that.
The sad thing is for every Tony Watson or Rafael Martinez 'rumor", there are many factual accounts of this stuff happening. Maybe not getting beat up, or in the hospital, or in jail, or on the run, or on their death bed every day, but it happens enough that many rumors may in fact prove to be true. Some of our best players live hard life styles.
I think Joey's was a good question. It ain't going to get answered on AZBaseball or AZBasketball. Since it's a pool question, what better source than here?