New Yankese second baseman Starlin Castro fielded some questions from Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: You’ve already made the All-Star team three times, how much better can you be?

A: Yeah, I think I can get better than that. I went to the All-Star game three times and I never started. I wanted to be in the All-Star game at the start of the game.

Q: Do you think you can win a batting title one day?

A: Yeah. Because I think I can put the ball in play all the time. I can hit for average, I can hit a little bit for power too.

Q: What are your personal goals for this season?

A: My first goal is the team. And the second goal is being healthy. And I think if you’re healthy, a lot of good things can happen.

Q: Do you think you can help make Yankees fans forget about Robinson Cano?

A: If I play to my potential, everything will take care of itself. My goal is to try to be out there every day, do my best every day. It’s gonna be a bad game, it’s gonna be a good game, I understand that. Just learn from the mistakes that I make. You’re gonna see me try to be healthy every day, you’re gonna see me then and give you 100 percent to help the team.

Q: What areas of your game do you think you need to improve?

A: Don’t lose my focus, just try to compete all nine innings. I mean, everything — hitting, offensively. I think we never stop learning.

Q: What would you tell Yankees fans about what kind of ballplayer you are?

A: It’s a good opportunity for me having the veteran guys that we have here, because now I know who I can be if I focus on the game, if I concentrate on the game and I work hard every day. I know I can be a really good baseball player.

Q: Do you like the big stage?

A: Yeah. I like it because in Chicago: It’s big, too.

Q: New York scares some players? Why doesn’t New York scare you?

A: I’ve been asking all the time about players that played here, try to learn everything in New York. I know it’s a really tough city, and just try to stay out of trouble.

Q: Do you miss shortstop?

A: I miss a little bit. But I like second base. I think it’s good for me.

Q: How good is this Yankees team?

A: Great. I think we got everything. We got veterans. We got young guys. We got a great bullpen. I think we have a strong lineup.

Q: What is the best piece of advice Alex Rodriguez has given you?

A: Good guy. Good person. He gives me a lot of things, like especially how he prepares to be successful for so many years.

Q: Describe Carlos Beltran.

A: I feel blessed to have those guys with me now. They always try to help everybody. They want to share what they think is gonna be good for the team first, and us.

Q: How is Joe Girardi different from Cubs manager Joe Maddon?

A: They communicate with the players, they protect the players.

Q: Describe Didi Gregorius.

A: We just want to be the best middle infield in the game.

Q: Do you think you have a chance to be that?

A: Yeah, for sure.

Q: What is it like hitting against Aroldis Chapman?

A: He’s so big and strong. It looks like he’s on top of you, and the ball is coming out of the scoreboard. Really heavy ball. And now he’s got a changeup, now he’s got a slider. He’s got you.

Q: He’s the toughest guy you’ve ever faced, right?

A: He’s the toughest one, yeah.

Q: Who was the toughest Mets pitcher you faced in the NLCS last year?

A: [Noah] Syndergaard.

Q: Why?

A: He not only threw hard, for me he’s a pitcher. He can throw you in, he can throw you away, he can throw you changeup, curveball.

Q: Over Matt Harvey?

A: Yeah, for me.

Q: And over Jacob deGrom, too?

A: Yeah.

Q: What has been Alfonso Soriano’s influence on you?

A: Big-time. He’s a godfather for my son.

Q: Describe your first major league at-bat in 2010.

A: I told my mom, “When I get called to the big leagues, I’m gonna buy you a house.” And that morning, I called her and said, “Hey, I got a callup to the big leagues, I want to buy you a house.” My first at-bat, [Red pitcher Homer Bailey] threw me a first-pitch fastball, I take it. He threw me second pitch, ball. And he threw me a curveball for a strike, he threw me a fastball away, and he threw me a hanging curveball, and I hit a homer. When I was running the bases, I can’t believe that it happened.

Q: What does it mean to be a New York Yankee?

A: It means a lot. Especially the town that I come from [Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic], when I was growing up, it was almost everybody was Yankee fans.

Q: Why were so many of your fellow countrymen Yankees fans?

A: Because they always liked a lot of Latin players that played there. And TV, they put on Yankee games the most.

Q: Favorite Yankees player?

A: Derek Jeter.

Q: What was it you liked about Jeter?

A: How he played the game, and how he was with his teammates. Everybody that I asked about him, everybody told me that he’s an unbelievable player, unbelievable person.

Q: What do you think of the Bleacher Creatures?

A: That’s fun, that’s really fun. Didi told me in spring training, “Hey, what do you want to do when the fans start chanting your name? You have to look out.” I say, “Yeah, I want to look out and tip my hat.”

Q: Can you give me an example of how poor you were growing up?

A: My father [a fisherman] was the one that took care of the whole family. I got two sisters and two brothers, and we’d go fishing with him. We’d go in the morning. Me and my younger brother waited for him outside and he went deep in the water. We used to have like only one [pair of] shoes to go to school, to go the game to play basketball and baseball.

Q: Were there things you wanted for Christmas that you couldn’t have?

A: I never got anything. I never got a cake for my birthday. Every month they’d buy a different piece and we made a bicycle for me and my brother.

Q: Your father used to pitch rocks to you?

A: Yeah. … How do you know that?

Q: I did my homework.

A: (Laugh) Yeah. Also, in the house that we lived, every time it rained, the bed got wet. On top of the house, they had like holes, and every time it rained, the water fell inside the house.

Q: What did you use for a bat when you hit the rocks?

A: A piece of wood cut down.

Q: Describe your 3-year-old son, Starlin Jr.

A: He’s changed his name now. He told me now his name is Spider-man. He’s a really happy kid. When I come home and just start playing with him, it’s unbelievable. He’s a smart kid, he started speaking English now too.

Q: He has a younger sister.

A: Nine months.

Q: What is her name?

A: Scarlet.

Q: What do you like about New York City?

A: The energy of the city.

Q: Who are athletes in other sports you like?

A: LeBron James.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Derek Jeter, Ice Cube, Jay Z.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Friday.”

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Ice Cube.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Steak.