DUNEDIN, FLA.—Triple-digit pitchers. Ho hum.

Dozens of Major League Baseball hurlers hit 100 or better on the radar gun in 2018, led by Thor, Noah Syndergaard of the Mets, the one-time Blue Jays property who got away in the R.A. Dickey deal. It still sends a shudder of regret up the spine.

It’s not the ferocity or the velocity that culls the torrid fireballers from the bazooka arm wild things. It’s harnessing control of unhittable heat.

Nate Pearson, facing live hitters for the first time this spring over at the minor-league complex on Thursday, took the edge off his fastball, staying within the mid- to upper 90s range. Reverse thrusters engaged.

“I definitely feel like I can control it, unlike a lot of other guys that throw as hard as me. I have good control and a feel for where it’s going.”

The 22-year-old is the top pitching prospect in the Blue Jays system. GM Ross Atkins has compared him to Bartolo Colon. Pearson aspires to be the second coming of Nolan Ryan.

A fastball that tops 100 mph is meh. “I’ve been doing it for a couple of years now so it’s fairly routine,” Pearson says.

He’s something of a Thor clone. Also, like Syndergaard, he’s a fan of Marvel superheroes. So we’ll have to come up with an appropriate nickname: Nate Fury. Cannonball Pearson. Psylocked-and-Loaded.

Also, with a three-inch screw in his elbow, Pearson is a bit of a bionic moundsman.

Unlike Dickey, Pearson also has an ulnar ligament. It was a fractured ulna — a long bone in the forearm — that threw a serious curve into the native Floridian’s development last year. He was struck in the arm, his pitching arm, by a 95-mph liner off the bat of Bradenton outfielder Tyler Gaffney during Pearson’s debut with the Dunedin Blue Jays.

The franchise’s head almost exploded. But it could have been worse. “It was just a small fracture,’’ Pearson assures.

Doctors were able to set the non-displaced break without wielding a knife. Still, six weeks in a cast were followed by two months of rehab. “That’s what took the longest, getting my range of motion back and strength up. It’s fine now, really good. I’m healthy.”

An injury history explains why Pearson drew only modest interest in high school. As a teenager, he’d undergone surgery for an olecranon stress fracture, “the knob in the elbow.” Hence the screw, which made big-league clubs leery.

“It was more growth-plate issues,” Pearson explains. “I was growing so fast. Didn’t really take much time off from throwing, throwing year-round. That didn’t give me time to grow and have those bones close up.”

He’s grown to six-foot-six and 245 pounds.

The Jays took him in the first round of the 2017 entry draft, 28th overall, hoping to develop him either as a starter or short-burst reliever with a quicker path to the majors. Certainly he considers himself the stuff of starters. But that fateful comebacker pushed back the timeline, costing Pearson six months on the sidelines.

“That was just bad luck,” he shrugs. “I took it as something I had to go through and something I’m going to be better for having gone through. I just kept a good head on my shoulders and attacked each day, trying to get better.”

There was, in truth, some despondency. The Jays front office recognized their prime asset’s gloom and put him in contact with Mike Fiers of the Athletics, he of the no-hitter circa 2015. For some bucking up.

“He had a similar injury, kind of ran me through it,” Pearson says. “And he came back strong. He put my mind at rest. Said, ‘Look, it’s not that big of a deal, you’re going to be all right.’ That helped.”

Trivia factoid: The first live hitter Pearson faced in Dunedin last summer was Josh Donaldson, amidst his own endless rehabbing. “If that doesn’t get you nervous, I don’t know what will. Got him to swing a few times. But he was just getting his work in, like me.”

Pearson closed some of the development gap by playing in the Arizona Fall League. “Knocked off some rust.” He’d previously, pre-fracture, started seven games for the Vancouver Canadians. He is coming along nicely now, rated No. 70 in the top-100 prospect list by Baseball America in January.

He would dearly love to get a whistle from the big club in the same way the Jays showcased Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette for a few games last spring. He isn’t expecting it, though. It’s easier to pop a couple of position players into the lineup for some at-bats than accommodate and discombobulate a pitcher’s routine.

Inside intel suggests Pearson will quickly matriculate to Double-A New Hampshire later this year, packing his heat, slider, curveball and changeup.

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And that’s just a couple of six-foot-six strides from the majors, though he’s not set any time frame targets.

“I don’t look at it that way. I just know I want to have a great career. I want to be hall-of-famer. I want to be one of the best.”

That’s all, huh? Why not.