Todd Frazier reported to the batting cages at 7 a.m. Thursday for a noon game. When the contest finally got going hours later, Frazier showed some signs of life in what has been an otherwise rough month for the third baseman.

“I had to go back to the drawing board, I lost it there a little bit,” Frazier said on why he took to the cages so early before the Mets’ 4-0 win over the Padres. “I was basically swinging at everything. We talked about this earlier in the year, when I’m swinging at good pitches, usually I’m going to hit the ball hard and good things are going to happen.

“I’ve got to give credit to our hitting coaches Chili [Davis] and Tom Slater, we — for about an hour — sat down and looked at some computer work and went back to look at my Cincinnati days and all the way through Chicago, to what I’m doing now.”

Frazier went 2-for-3 Thursday, registering a run and driving in two with a two-out double in the first to push the Mets ahead 3-0. Luckily for the two-time All-Star, Jacob deGrom was on the mound and his seven scoreless innings made Frazier’s strikeout with the bases loaded in the eighth inconsequential.

“There’s no secret to success. It takes hard work, it takes identifying the problem and working on the problem,” manager Mickey Callaway said following the win. “And he was in here at 7 a.m. and probably won us the game because of that. He does what it takes, this guy is a winner, and he always will be. He works hard.”

Through 17 games this month, Frazier is hitting just .167 with five RBIs. With the trade deadline steadily approaching, those aren’t the kind of numbers that add value to a potential trade piece, and interest in the 33-year-old has reportedly been light.