My lower half was not there. At times it was like I was trying to pitch stiff-legged. Physically, I fell into some bad habits, and that hurt my arm. It got to a point where I wasn't even a big-league pitcher.
I was trying to shorten my stride up mechanically, and when you start taking the lower body out of it, you start putting a lot more strain -- the shoulder has to try to stop itself, instead of using the body to stop it -- and that's probably what happened,