Holding a bat in the tunnel that stretches between the Mets’ dugout and clubhouse, Wilson Ramos saw the question coming like a batting practice fastball.

“What do you want to talk about?” Ramos said, when asked by The Post if he had a minute to chat.

He had a strong suspicion, of course, the topic was the hitting streak he took into Thursday night against the Cubs, which he extended to 22 games with a pair of hits in a 4-1 Mets loss. When the streak was mentioned, Ramos smiled. He’s the superstitious type, you see, and had nothing to say about the matter.

But Ramos did reveal he’s in a better spot mentally than he was five or six weeks ago, as he underperformed and thought he might be traded heading to July 31.

This was before the Mets’ surge into wild-card contention had fully materialized, and the team appeared willing to deal veterans. Ramos had struggled behind the plate to the point Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom wanted Tomas Nido catching for them. And Ramos’ bat was an upgrade for sure over what the Mets had at catcher in recent years, just not the All-Star caliber the team thought it was getting for two years and $19 million.

So it made sense that if the Mets could find a taker — perhaps an American League team that would let him DH part-time — they might deal Ramos.

“In the beginning, as soon as I heard the first thing about the trade rumors, I got a little down because I want to be here for the years that they signed me,” Ramos said. “But I know this business already: We’re here and we don’t know tomorrow. But after the trade deadline I cleared my mind a little bit.”

Ramos is batting .429 with three homers during the hitting streak. But more importantly, he’s gained the confidence of the entire Mets rotation, a fact that couldn’t be overlooked in the 18-9 record with a 2.79 ERA, before Thursday night, the team’s starters had since the All-Star break.

The combined body of work indicates the Mets will head to next season with the 32-year-old Ramos still in their plans. Nido has emerged as a capable backup — albeit with his offensive limitations evident as he sits on the injured list recovering from a concussion — but the idea of featuring him next season, with maybe a veteran catcher to split playing time, has been erased by Ramos’ second-half surge. The Mets finally have what they wanted all along.

It’s no coincidence the team’s second-half improvement has mirrored Ramos’.

“We signed him for a reason: because he can hit, provide offense, drive in runs and get back there every day catching,” manager Mickey Callaway said. “He’s been doing a lot, and when he’s out there, we’re a better version of ourselves. Obviously when he’s the best version of ourselves, we’re an even better team, so there is no coincidence at all.”

J.D. Davis’ addition in a trade with the Astros was general manager Brodie Van Wagenen’s biggest hit in a shaky offseason — which brought Edwin Diaz and Robinson Cano here for top prospects and also added Jed Lowrie and Jeurys Familia. Lowrie still hasn’t played for the team, and there was a significant stretch in which it would have been better if Familia was somewhere far from New York rehabbing with him. But behind Davis, you have Ramos as the Van Wagenen acquisition that has paid nice dividends.

For all the talk about Pete Alonso’s franchise-record homer binge, Jeff McNeil’s batting title pursuit and J.D. Davis’ emergence as a dangerous hitter, it’s Ramos who has quietly helped carry this lineup as much as anybody in the past month.

And now this hitting streak has become a topic.

“The streak is amazing,” Callaway said. “Every night he has the ability to slap one the other way with some pretty good authority, so it’s really an approach thing that allows him to extend this streak like it has been extended.”

Ramos would probably agree — if he were talking about the streak.

Streak, what streak?

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