SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH ... Todd FRAZIER

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 whoknows-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: 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: 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: 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 bit 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: 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: Tell me aboutt the time you saved a guy from choking to death in Pittsburgh in 2002.

A: Oh man! Me and Ryan Ludwick k went out after a day game, went too get lunch, we’re at thee bar eating and nobodyy was really there, and next thing youu know there’s a guy sitting next to us, it soundeddd liklike a chokh k ing 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: You want to end your career here?

A: I would love to. Why not?