A few people have asked me my choice for Mets’ manager. I’m tempted to resist picking any candidate, citing again my general lack of relevant information about the various candidates — personalities, philosophies, contract demands, etc.

But that would be a second-straight copout, and I recently went two straight Sandwich of the Weeks without giving definitive ratings and I’m not looking to go down that road again, so here goes:

Tim Bogar.

Seems like a longshot, sure, since I haven’t seen his name come up anywhere but here. But Bogar interviewed for the Blue Jays’ job, so he’s certainly considered a Major League managerial candidate by some.

Plus he has experience working for the Red Sox and Rays, a pair of well-run, top-down organizations of the type I hope the Mets become. Every team Bogar managed in the Minors won and won often, he earned manager-of-the-year honors in multiple leagues, and he was named Baseball America’s top managerial prospect from the Eastern League in 2006.

And he obviously has the Mets ties, which should endear him to ownership, according to the rumors. (Incidentally, Brendon Desrochers points out that Mets ties are available at the MLB.com shop.)

So if for some reason you care who I think should be the Mets’ next manager, there you have it: Tim Bogar. Done.

Could Tim Bogar take over and call for bunts constantly, or destroy every arm in his bullpen, or ceaselessly turn to Guillermo Mota in tight spots? Certainly. Like I said, I really don’t know much about any of these guys besides Bobby Valentine, and he seems destined for Milwaukee. For all I know, Tim Bogar is a hatchet murderer with a personal vendetta against David Wright. Here’s hoping Sandy Alderson does the due diligence to determine whether any potential manager is also a homicidal maniac.

As for managerial lightning rod Wally Backman? Color me ambivalent — which I believe amounts to taking an original position, since everyone on the Internet seems certain he will either lead the Mets to perpetual glory or drag them to sub-Torborgian lows.

My understanding is that Backman loves bunting in many situations, something of a turn-off. But he does have a very strong reputation among his players and ex-players, and he does seem to win most places he goes. He has demons in the closet — a DUI charge and a domestic-dispute arrest — but he has purportedly stayed out of trouble since the latter, in 2001.

I talked to Backman for a while after we filmed a Baseball Show episode with him in Brooklyn, and I came away pretty impressed with his knowledge of the personnel in the Mets’ system — not just the Cyclones. I’m not sure if that means a ton for a Major League manager, but I’d give the guy credit for paying close attention.

So put me down for uncertain in that epic debate.

I think the main thing is, if I’m going to try out having faith in Alderson, I should probably at least trust him to handle his first reasonably big decision in his new job. So though I reserve the right to determine that it was certainly the wrong one come June when new-manager-guy drops Wright to eighth in the lineup or something, I will probably just assume that whatever choice Alderson makes is at least a decent one, knowing all along that the field manager is a position wildly overrated in its importance and that fans of every team in the league are certain their manager sucks.

Unless it’s Bogar. It’d be sweet if it’s Bogar.