Time has come today.

For there is a fresh analytical look at Thurman Munson’s career and sturdy postseason numbers to prove he is worthy of the Hall of Fame.

Larry Schnapf, a Manhattan-based environmental lawyer, is leading the charge as co-chair of the Thurman Munson Hall of Fame Committee (www.munsonHOF.com). The group put together an exhaustive breakdown of Munson’s career, which ended much too early at the age of 32, when he died in a crash of a plane he was piloting on Aug. 2, 1979.

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America never voted Munson into the National Baseball Hall of Fame during his time on the ballot. His decade of excellence lasted from 1970-79. In 1981, when he was first on the ballot after the BBWAA waived the usual five-year waiting period, he received 15.5 percent of the vote on a ballot that included Bob Gibson, Harmon Killebrew and Juan Marichal.

The next year, Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson were elected. Munson lasted 15 years on the ballot. He never came close to being elected.

Munson will get another chance for election Sunday. He is one of 10 people — nine players and Marvin Miller, the first players’ union leader — on the Modern Baseball Era ballot to be voted on by a panel of 16. Twelve votes are needed for induction.

When Munson was on the writers’ ballot, it was a much different view for writers who held the keys to the Hall. Compiling magic numbers guaranteed induction, but Munson did have the requisite 10 years that the Hall of Fame demands. He finished with a .292 batting average while Hall of Fame catchers Carlton Fisk hit .284 and Johnny Bench batted .267 during the 1970s.

For someone who followed Munson’s career from the day the Yankees drafted him fourth overall in 1968 and got to cover Munson on occasion, there was never any doubt Munson was a Hall of Famer whose career was cut short that fateful day.

He changed the Yankees culture, winning Rookie of the Year honors in 1970. He was AL MVP in 1976, a gifted and durable catcher with an incredibly quick release, and was the heart and soul of the team. As captain, he led the Yankees to three straight pennants and back-to-back World Series titles in 1977 and ’78.

Schnapf, 66, and his group, including vice chair and statistician Tom Tunison and chair Rene LeRoux, present a convincing argument when looking at Munson’s career through the lens of today’s analytics.

“We are kind of reintroducing him to the world,’’ Schnapf told The Post. “It’s amazing, 40 years is a long time, it doesn’t seem like a long time for those of us who have watched him.’’

Munson’s career is looked at in that 10-year snapshot. That 10-year requirement fits one of the key components to being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Munson’s career WAR of 45.6 can only be matched over any 10-year period by six other catchers, and every one of them is enshrined in the Hall — Gary Carter, Johnny Bench, Mike Piazza, Ivan Rodriguez, Yogi Berra and Mickey Cochrane.

Munson’s WAR per 162 games ranks third among catchers with a 5.25 mark, behind only Cochrane and Bench.

Schnapf’s committee’s presentation is filled with some eye-opening statistics, including:

Munson is one of three catchers in history with three consecutive seasons with a .300-plus batting average and 100-plus RBIs in 1975-77. The other two are in the Hall: Bill Dickey and Piazza.

Nine consecutive seasons with 1,000-plus innings caught and 100-plus complete games caught — not one Hall of Fame Catcher can match.

First all-time (all players) in postseason batting average .357 (minimum 129 at-bats).

Only catcher with a .300-plus batting average, 20-plus RBIs and 20-plus runners caught stealing in the postseason.

From 1970-1979, he had more innings caught, games started at catcher, complete games caught, assists, runners caught stealing, at-bats, hits and a higher batting average than both Bench and Fisk.

“Thurman was one of the best clutch hitters of all time and he is the only Yankee in history to have an MVP award and the Rookie of the Year award,’’ Schnapf said. “He has two world championships, so he has the hardware.

“When you look at Munson’s WAR compared to other Hall of Fame catchers, he is right there. In 1998, he was voted by the Sporting News as the America League catcher of the decade in the 1970s.’’

Fisk won the Rookie of the Year two years after Munson and played until 1993. Bench won the NL Rookie of the Year in 1968 and retired in 1983. But Bench and Fisk — both born in 1947 as Munson was — were at their best in the 1970s with Munson.

“The conventional wisdom is that Munson didn’t play long enough and when he played he wasn’t good enough,’’ Schnapf said. “The fact of the matter is, if the 10-year rule means anything, he played long enough. The writers in the ’80s did not have the benefit of modern analytics. Baseball teams are evaluating players differently, so we are taking another look at his career through the way players are valued now.’’

In more traditional stats, Munson was the first catcher to achieve four consecutive seasons of 180 hits. He finished in the top 10 in batting average five times. He batted .330 with two outs and runners in scoring position from 1975-78 — when his team batted .243.

“Even in 1979, the conventional thinking was that he was in decline, but if you project his WAR for the whole year, it was 3.5. He threw out 46 percent of the runners in 1979. He was in seven All-Star Games in nine seasons,’’ Schnapf said. “He was the first American League catcher to win Rookie of the Year.’’

Munson is the all-time leader in percentage of complete games caught. He caught 1,278 games over his career with 1,182 complete games.

LeRoux, executive director of the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame, points to Munson’s Octobers as a measure of his greatness.

“Thurman’s postseason career puts him over the edge as a Hall of Famer,’’ he said. “Two-time World Series champion, .357 batting average [in 30 postseason games and 135 plate appearances with an .874 OPS], batted .529 in the ’76 World Series, the year he was an MVP. He threw out 44 percent of base runners in the postseason against running teams like the Royals and Reds. He excelled on both sides. With the current trend toward the metrics, his defensive numbers are outstanding. The in-season numbers certainly are merit worthy, but his postseason is what defines him. And his career was long enough. The Hall of Fame says you have to play 10 years, and he played 10 years. That argument ends there.’’

There is a big push for Ted Simmons, who is also on the Modern Baseball Era ballot.

“I think they are very close,’’ LeRoux said. “Munson was the much better defensive catcher and his career batting average was higher and Munson has the two World Series rings, Simmons none. Simmons was never MVP.’’

When I visited the Munson family in Ohio in 1999 on the 20th anniversary of his death and went to his grave with his indelible pinstriped Yankees image on the front of the monument and his No. 15 on the back at Sunset Hills Burial Park, I was struck by the beauty and symbolism of that memorial that sits under the shade of four maple trees — first, second, third and home.

I will never forget the words his widow, Diana, said to me: “Thurman always said he taught me to be tough and I taught him to be gentle.’’

The time is now for Munson to get his deserved Hall of Fame plaque in Cooperstown.

Schnapf made this his mission after a bout with kidney cancer in 2016.

“I was very lucky and we caught it early,’’ he said. “I said, ‘OK, what am I going to do with this gift of life that I got.’ I had two things I wanted to do, one was to work on the Kennedy assassination, [he just returned from a Kennedy conference in Dallas] and the other was try to get Munson into the Hall of Fame.’’

He created a Thurman Munson site on Facebook (Thurman Munson Hall of Fame) and the Munson Hall of Fame Committee, pointing toward the 40th anniversary of Munson’s death. His group also presented a petition to the Hall of Fame with 16,500 signatures.

“This is a real grassroots effort,’’ Schnapf said. “We just kind of met each other and we all had complementary gifts. None of us knew each other before we started this campaign.’’

“Munson was truly on his way to the Hall of Fame,’’ Schnapf said, noting he has gotten support from Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay when he launched the campaign at the annual Munson Dinner last February. The 40th dinner is Feb. 4 at Chelsea Piers. “This is like a political campaign. We just got through the primary and now we are in the general election. Getting him on the ballot has reintroduced Thurman, which is a great thing.’’

Derek Jeter will be elected by the writers this year. Munson deserves to enter the Hall this summer as well.

Yankee captains together in Cooperstown.