New Jersey native Todd Frazier, recently acquired by the Yankees in a trade with the White Sox, takes a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: What are your favorite Toms River memories growing up?

A: Oooh man. … We won the national junior peewee Pop Warner championship when I was 8. I won the Punt, Pass and Kick when I was 9. When baseball comes around, it’s crazy. I remember having 2,000 people at our Little League games at 12 years old when we played against the rival Toms River … going to the high school football games which were unbelievable, to scoring 1,000 points. I remember when I scored 1,000 points, both my brothers did the same things, in basketball. Just the friendships I made, and just the love I have for that city.

Q: Why is Toms River so special?

A: I don’t know, man, it’s crazy. It’s a who-knows-who there, to be honest with you. You go to a regular grocery store, everybody’s asking about you, “You’re doing a great job,” this and that. Everybody takes pride in what they do, and especially when it comes to baseball. We run camps all the time in the offseason. We try and give back, me and my brothers, as much as we can, so we can have, hopefully a couple of more Todd Fraziers coming up (smile). It’s just a fun town. It’s a town filled with excitement every day, and sports plays a big role there,

Q: Favorite New Jersey things?

A: The pizza’s probably No. 1.

Q: Better than New York pizza?

A: I think they’re the same, to be honest with you (smile). Thin-crust, both of ’em. Here’s the difference: New York at 2 in the morning pizza? Oh my god, you can’t beat it. Where I live, I don’t get that much New York pizza because I’m in New Jersey all the time. But when I do come up, I do taste a little difference in … all right, I’ll say New York is better, then.

Q: I don’t want to get you in trouble …

A: No, no, I’m not gonna get in trouble, either way. But I think at the end of the day they’re the same, ’cause they’re thin crust, the cheese just falls off, like oozes off the best, ’cause I’ve had Chicago pizza, I’m not a big fan of that at all.

Q: The deep dish, you mean?

A: The deep dish … and I’ve tried the thin crust there, and it’s like when the cheese falls off, all of it falls off at once. So it’s kind of like the fake cheese, to be honest … the pork roll, you can’t beat the pork roll down here, the Jersey Shore where I grew up, the beaches. That’s the one thing I miss during the year ’cause I really can’t get to the beach now. But I’ll take baseball over the beach until I’m done playing (smile).

Q: Any other favorite Jersey things? It doesn’t have to be food.

A: Frank Sinatra … he grew up in Hoboken, I think, and I love him to death. I wish I got to meet him before he passed away. Bruce Springsteen. My wife grew up in Freehold where he was born and raised.

Q: Do you have a favorite pizza spot by the way?

A: There’s Al Pizza down the street … Linda’s … Luigi’s … Rivioli’s is a good Italian spot down there. My favorite spot for a sandwich though, is the Driftwood Deli.

Q: Chicken parm?

A: No … well, that’s my second favorite sandwich. It’s called The Todd, they made a sandwich after me. You could look that up — it’s turkey, roast beef, crispy bacon, like burnt to the crisp, and yellow American cheese and yellow mustard. And no veggies at all. … I like vegetables, but on my sandwich, I’ll put a tomato on there every once in a while, but we’re going raw, let’s get it.

Q: Favorite New York City things?

A: The shops out here are unbelievable. … What’s that toy store called? It’s got like all the big stuffed animals and everything in there — FAO Schwarz. The restaurants are great. … I just like walking around, man, I think that’s the coolest thing, people watching, I love people watching, and I love looking to see the people that have never been before like look up and stuff.

Q: Favorite Rutgers memory?

A: You know what I loved? When we would go down South and play against the Miamis and the Georgia Techs, and playing against Ryan Braun, man … It’s like, “These are the guys that you’re supposed to be as good as,” and I would step up every time, man. And then playing against Matt Wieters, just the battles we had there, and that actually prepared us to be better when we were in the Big East. My roommate I still talk to, Tommy Edwards … Mike Biondi, Dave Williams. There’s still a bunch of guys that I still keep in touch with; they’re all Yankee fans! We have this little group text now and they’re like, “Oh man, how’s it feel to be a Yankee?” this and that (smile). I’m like, “You’re living through my dream.” They all love it, so it’s good.

Q: Give me a Todd Frazier scouting report.

A: The biggest thing is, you can throw him the fastball right down [the middle] and [he] won’t hit it, if you want the truth. … Just kidding (laugh).

Q: That’s the scouting report you want the pitchers to read.

A: Yeah, exactly (smile). … He’s a home run hitter. … At times, his swing gets away from himself sometimes. Gap-to-gap hitter. … Try and stay away from him, man, he might chase the offspeed a little bit. But don’t miss your pitch at the end of the day, because he’ll get you.

Q: If you could test your skills against anybody in the history of baseball, who would you face?

A: I’d say Nolan Ryan. I’ve heard stories from all the greats about him: If you kick dirt on the wrong part of the box, he’d throw at you; if you looked at him wrong, he’d throw at you and he wouldn’t care. He threw 106 [mph], 107, whatever it is, I’d like to see that coming in.

Q: If you could pick the brain of one hitter in history …

A: I would go with probably Lou Gehrig. Not only did he hit home runs, but he was a great hitter overall … great defender too as well. You could pick any of those guys, from Joe DiMaggio to Lou Gehrig — let’s get ’em all in a group and then put Frank Sinatra on the side so he can make it even funner, you know what I mean? We’ll have a couple of bottles of scotch, and a couple of cigars, and I think I wouldn’t want that night to end.

Q: What would you ask Sinatra?

A: I’d ask him if he thought he can get in the box to hit, too, and then if he could sing while he’s doing it, I think that would be pretty cool. Maybe that would relax his mind, that’d be nice (smile).

Q: What is your on-field mentality?

A: It’s serious, but fun at the same time, man. It’s tough to explain. I’m out there, as the pitch is coming, I’m back to the grind getting ready to go. I like to look in the stands a little bit, I like to see what the fans are doing, I remember those days watching. Nowadays people are on their phones too much, foul balls are coming left and right, and they have people getting whacked. But for me, it’s determined to be the best, man. I want to be the best defender, I want to be the best hitter. When I step into the box, as cliché as it sounds, I feel like I am the best hitter in the major leagues, and that’s a mindset I think everybody needs to have, and as a pitcher too as well as they step to the mound.

Q: You’ve won a Little League World Series and the Home Run Derby … What drives you?

A: I haven’t won a World Series yet. I think that drives me to want to get back in the playoffs and feel that new season kind of feel. I remember playing in the first wild card game in Pittsburgh (2013), lose you’re done. We [Reds] ended up losing against Pittsburgh, but I remember it felt like a European soccer match, how the fans were, there were horns going. That kind of feeling, man, I don’t care if you have a broken leg, I don’t think you’ll feel your leg during that game. And now I’m a Yankee, I’ve been to the playoff games here before, and I know how awesome it is, and the feeling you have, every pitch, every moment, it’s surreal,

Q: You were at the Stadium in 2004 when the Red Sox won Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS after being down three games up none.

A: I was in the bleachers. That was unbelievable. I’m looking at my buddy, I’m saying, “We’re witnessing history here, man.” When Johnny Damon hit that grand slam, I said, “Oh, no,” because those are four runs instead of one. You just see how deflated the Stadium was, man.

Q: Describe Aaron Judge.

A: He looks like one of those guys on that movie “300.” He’s a beast, he’s very humble, he can hit the ball a ton, and he works hard at his craft, man. He’s determined to be the best. It feels like he’s been here for a long time. He understands the game. The first time I struck out here he put a piece of gum in my hat and gave me my glove and looked at me like this (innocence) and we started smiling. I’m glad to be his teammate.

Q: Describe the Yankee Way.

A: I was reading the team rules the other day. Everything’s out in stone. You have to be respectful, you gotta be humble, you gotta have fun out there, but at the same time, do things right. They expect a lot out of you, and you gotta be determined to be the best every day. No matter how you feel, put on a show for the fans. I think about Derek Jeter when I think about the Yankee Way — he did everything the right way, he didn’t get in trouble off the field, and he was just the best player out there whenever he went out.

Q: Why was Paul O’Neill your boyhood idol?

A: I don’t know, just the way he played, man. He was a tall guy — my dad’s a pretty tall guy too, he’s 6-8. The way he swings the bat, every time he swung, kept his head down, I’ve always wanted to do that, it’s something I never could do, ’cause I always wanted to watch where the ball went. Loved out here by all Yankee fans, and a guy that you definitely could look up to.

Q: You used to watch videos of David Wright.

A: Well, he’s a third baseman for one, and for two, he’s a great athlete. Not only did I watch the way he hit, but I was more infatuated with the defense: where he set up, how low he got to the ground, [are] his legs spread out wide? When he started playing, he’d get to every ball. Somebody you look up to at the time, and that was one guy I did.

Q: Describe your two-home run game at Citi Field in 2012.

A: Yeah, that was great. That was my first time playing there. It was off Johan Santana, I went opposite field, then went to center field my next at-bat [off D.J. Carrasco]. It was a good feeling playing in front of probably around of 100 people that were at the game, family and friends, and one of those games that you just don’t want to end, when you go to bed at night, hopefully it takes forever to get up (smile).

Q: Describe the first time you played at Yankee Stadium, later that same week.

A: I just remember watching roll call was the first thing. I’m like, “I can’t miss that,” because I’ve been up there before, I love hearing that … watching Derek Jeter play, and Alex Rodriguez and … actually hit a home run off I think Dellin Betances [in 2014], it was his first year maybe, it wrapped around the foul pole to tie the game, and eventually we lost in the ninth. I looked to my right and my family’s there cheering for me. It was just a dream come true.

Q: Why are you a Jim Boeheim fan?

A: Oh man, I love Jim Boeheim! (smile). I don’t know what it was, I remember watching Syracuse back in the day, and I was a big Etan Thomas fan. I loved the zone that they run — I played basketball four years in high school, and I was a terrible defender, so I would have fit right into that zone defense (chuckle). His niece and nephew actually went to my high school, too, as well. But that’s not why I like him. When I’m watching college basketball, which I love, I saw what he does. They have great players — from Hakim Warrick to Carmelo Anthony, and when Carmelo came on the scene, I was just infatuated with him, to be honest with you. … He was fun to watch in college. For the one year that he was there, he was unbelievable. … Derrick Coleman …

Q: So you’re going to be sad when the Knicks trade Melo?

A: Yeah, I will be, man, ’cause I did, I did love him, and I still do, so we’ll see what happens.

Q: Did you ever meet Boeheim?

A: I never met Jim Boeheim. I got close. I went to the Duke basketball game last year when Syracuse upset ’em. I flew out there with a couple of my buddies, and that was a dream come true, too, going into Cameron Indoor Stadium, I talked to Dickie V. Dick Vitale’s a good friend of mine.

Q: Who are athletes in other sports you admire, aside from Carmelo?

A: Grew up a big Charles Barkley fan. He was the Round Mound of Rebound, loved him. Football, I’m a big Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan, so I was a big Warrick Dunn fan, but my favorite was Mike Alstott, I loved him. And those pewter orange jerseys, I got an authentic one of him back at home. I was a big Lawrence Taylor fan when the Giants were on. … Dave Meggett, [Jeff] Hostetler, Phil Simms … Pepper Johnson, I loved the name, it was pretty neat watching those guys.

Q: Tell me about the time you saved a guy from choking to death in Pittsburgh in 2002.

A: Oh man! Me and Ryan Ludwick went out after a day game, went to get lunch, we’re at the bar eating and nobody was really there, and next thing you know there’s a guy sitting next to us, it sounded like a choking noise going on. I said, “Ryan, I think the guy’s choking.” So I look over, and two waitresses are trying to give him the Heimlich. It was a big guy. Next thing you know, they couldn’t get it. I told ’em to move, I got my hands around the guy and basically gave him two Heimlich maneuver moves, and it came out. It wasn’t like one of those Bugs Bunny things where it pops out, but he got his hands in there, got it out.

Q: He got his hands in there?

A: Yeah, it came up, but it was still like halfway down, halfway up, so he got it, pulled it out and threw it down. It was unbelievable. I couldn’t eat after that, man. I was all worked up, I was fired up, and I’m just glad the guy was happy, he told me he was gonna pay for our dinner, I said, “You don’t have to,” but he said, “You saved my life.” He paid for our dinner, and away we went, man. It was pretty surreal to be honest with you.

Q: What was your experience working at the ShopRight Bakery like?

A: (Laugh) It was fun. My mom said, “You need to get a job this year, let’s go,” I think it was after my freshman year in high school, I said, “All right, no problem.” I was sick of working around the house, and I got hooked up working in the bakery at ShopRight down the street. I felt bad for the boss there because the head guy at ShopRight took me out of that spot, we had lunch for about two hours every day, man. He’d buy me buffalo wings at the place next door and we would talk about baseball the whole time, but I caught on for a year, year-and-a-half, I’m pretty good writing on a cake and stuff like that. It was fun, I had a blast.

Q: What did you make?

A: Anywhere from donuts to brownies to cakes.

Q: You made them?

A: Yeah. Most of ’em were just frozen, you put ’em in the oven. You spin everything around to get the donuts going.

Q: What did you make per hour?

A: I think it was $6.75.

Q: Describe your 3-year-old son Blake.

A: He’s a left-handed hitter, right-handed thrower. When we hit at the White Sox stadium, he was putting ’em on the dirt already, so I’m pretty happy about that (smile).

Q: Your daughter Kylie Kimberly is 1 ¹/₂.

A: She’s something else. I love her to death. She’s giving me a runaround already (smile).

Q: You want to end your career here?

A: I would love to. Why not?