ANAHEIM, Calif. — Logan O’Hoppe is doing his best to block out what he calls “the noise” surrounding him.

All of it, of course, at the moment is positive.

The 25-year-old Angels catcher, who grew up in Sayville and went to St. John the Baptist High School, entered Wednesday ranked fourth in the American League with 14 home runs in what is now his second full season in the big leagues.

“He’s turning into one of the premiere offensive catchers in the game,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone told Newsday before Wednesday night’s game against the Angels, one in which O’Hoppe served as the DH and batted sixth (late in Monday night’s game, he got clipped in the helmet by Jorbit Vivas on his follow-through and did not start behind the plate Tuesday, though he pinch hit in the ninth inning, popping out to end the game).

O’Hoppe’s performance two months into the season has him in position to be in the thick of the conversation for starting AL catcher duties for July’s All-Star Game. Although the Mariners’ Cal Raleigh currently would be considered the front-runner for that honor, fan voting only started last week, with the date when the All-Stars are announced well over a month away.

Regardless, none of that public conjecture is of much interest to the affable yet, according to those inside the Angels organization, uber-intense and competitive O’Hoppe.

“I took away my social media. I gave it to my agents to run for me to try to eliminate as much noise as I can,” O’Hoppe told Newsday in the Angels clubhouse late Wednesday afternoon. “I’m really trying to stay out of the noise as much as I can because that can be just as toxic as getting hung up on failure, in my opinion.

“My first year or two up here in the majors], it’s so magnified and it’s hard to ignore all of it, but it’s something I’m learning in my career, and watching guys like [Mike] Trout who’s next to me [in the clubhouse], they don’t look at that stuff. They’ve had pretty good careers so why not follow suit?”

After his big-league debut Sept. 28, 2022 against the A’s, that career for O’Hoppe, a 23rd round pick of the Phillies in the 2018 draft out of St. John the Baptist, has been steadily on the upswing. O’Hoppe, who singled in his first career at-bat — a single to center off Oakland righthander Adrian Martinez — played in just 51 games in 2023 but still managed to hit 14 homers with a .796 OPS.

Last season, playing in 136 games, he hit .244 with a .712 OPS but with 20 homers and 17 doubles.

This year, in 48 games, O’Hoppe is hitting .265 with 44 hits, including the 14 homers, and an .827 OPS, all while learning on the fly the most important duties — and most difficult — of a young catcher in the majors: the nuances of an entire big-league pitching staff.

“It’s a tough thing to do,” said Angels assistant pitching coach Sal Fasano, known as a terrific defensive backstop during his 11 seasons in the majors, including with the Yankees in 2006, and a renown catching coach in the league since his retirement. “Learning the league is really hard, and learning your staff is even harder. I think there’s been a lot of good growth there, and I think there’s room for way more, too.”

O’Hoppe is the first to acknowledge his work behind the plate is a work in progress.

“I’m nowhere close to where I want to be,” O’Hoppe said. “I don’t feel by any means a finished product or anywhere close.”

O’Hoppe said growing up the catchers he liked watching, and tried to emulate, were the Giants’ Buster Posey and the Cardinals’ Yadier Molina. He was also a big fan of the Yankees’ Jorge Posada.

That isn’t a surprise given O’Hoppe is a lifelong fan of the Yankees — though, naturally, that is on hold during this stage of his life. He is able to reel off the names of rosters past, including from the Yankees’ last title team in 2009.

He remains a proud Long Islander, still in regular touch with those who helped him along the way, including his high school coach, Casey McKay at St. John the Baptist, travel coach Tom Downey of the Long Island Titans and trainer Adam Belding of Belding Performance Strength and Conditioning.

“I’m back home in Sayville every offseason,” O’Hoppe, whose parents Michael and Angela still live in Sayville, said with a smile. “Food’s too good and my people are back home. I don’t think I’ll have an offseason where I don’t go back to be honest with you. Everyone from back home is still a really big part of my life.”