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DUNEDIN, Fla. — From questions about innings limits and whether his future was in the rotation to interrogations about blisters and the health of an important digit on his right hand, Aaron Sanchez hasn’t talked much about his actual performance over the past couple of years.

Now 25 years old and being counted on rather than dreamed on by the Toronto Blue Jays and their fans, Sanchez is hoping that changes this season.

As of today, the blister issues that not only limited Sanchez to just 36 innings last year but have quietly plagued him for years are gone.

When pitchers and catchers start working out for the first official time Wednesday at the Bobby Mattick Training Center, Sanchez will have no limitations.

It’s been a long time since Sanchez can claim he’s full go.

The blisters on his middle finger appeared last year in late March, setting in motion a series of events that, in the end, added up to a lost season for a pitcher who had emerged as a top-of-the-rotation option by leading the American League in ERA in 2016.

Four trips to the disabled list later, Sanchez’s last pitch of 2017 came at Fenway Park in July.

“There wasn’t really much to digest — I made eight starts,” a smiling Sanchez said Tuesday while looking back on a frustrating campaign.

“Obviously, there was a lot of stuff that went on last year, so for me to kind of clear my mind and get back to getting in shape for this year, it’s been a pleasant off-season for me and I’m just getting excited to get back going.”

There was no magic elixir helping Sanchez recover.

Even through the stops and starts of last season, everyone sort of knew the only remedy was rest, but that’s a hard thing to find in the middle of a season when the Jays desperately needed him.

“I don’t think I ever really lost confidence in the finger,” Sanchez said. “I knew what it had went through and what kind of trauma it took across those six months trying to get back. I just knew once I got rest, the healing part would take its course. Once I give it time and not grip everyday, not throw the ball everyday, and not do those things that I kind of did on a consistent basis with that injury, I knew it would kind of clear up. All it was was time and time is time, you know? You can’t speed it up.”

In September, Sanchez’s finger issue turned into a pulley strain, a result of overcompensating for the blister.

He was shut down for good with strict instructions to rest for eight-to-10 weeks.

Sanchez and the Blue Jays took that a step further: No baseballs in his hand for almost 13 weeks.

Since he began throwing in Dunedin last month, it’s been smooth sailing, but the true test will come when he’s asked to pitch deep into a game and really put pressure on the finger.

“I’ll be ready to go come Game 1,” Sanchez said.

But when Sanchez speaks, he uses terms like “at this point” and “barring any setback.”

Sanchez is smart.

He knows he’s not completely out of the woods, and, at times, it sounds like he almost expects to have a recurrence.

Whether that becomes public or quietly goes undetected like it did in 2016 will likely be determined by the severity.

“I’m not going to sit here and say I’m not going to have an issue this year,” Sanchez said. “It could very well be that something pops up. I’m going to try to maintain it as much as I can. In 2016, I had the issue all year and just kind of dealt with it.

“I’m ready to go and I don’t think, in my mind, that this thing will be as severe as it was last year.”

The 2016 season serves as a recent reminder of just how good Sanchez can be.

He was worth 3.8 fWAR that season, a number that would have placed him as the 15th most valuable starter in baseball last year, just ahead of teammate Marcus Stroman’s 3.4 fWAR, which had him 18th.

Only two teams last season had multiple starters with that much value — the Washington Nationals, with three, and Cleveland Indians.

In other words, it’s an enviable one-two punch, and it gets even more exciting when you consider there might be some ceiling left in both of them.

After earning a raise from $535,000 last season to $2.7 million in his first trip through arbitration, Sanchez is now looking forward to working on his craft rather than worrying about his finger.

Other than the obvious spring goal of staying healthy, he’s keeping it fairly simple this spring.

“It’s just getting back to getting the reps, really,” Sanchez said. “Getting the right reps and getting back into my delivery. I think all that will kind of just all take care of itself. I’m not going to go in there looking at one thing. I can always improve.”​