Five starts and 25 2/3 innings.

That’s the entirety of Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski’s MLB résumé.

Yet MLB added the flame-throwing 23-year-old to the National League roster for tonight’s All-Star Game — a polarizing decision that’s become one of the top talking points ahead of this year’s exhibition at Truist Park in Atlanta.

Misiorowski, who is 4-1 with a 2.81 ERA and 33 strikeouts, was named a roster replacement for Chicago Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd, who pitched against the Yankees on Saturday.

“What a joke,” Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trae Turner told The Athletic of Misiorowski’s inclusion. “That’s f— terrible. I mean, that’s terrible, dude.”

Misiorowski, with a triple-digit fastball and unhittable slider, captivated baseball after last month’s call-up by hurling 11 no-hit innings to begin his career.

But Misiorowski’s five career games are the fewest ever for an All-Star, prompting debate about whether battle-tested pitchers like the Phillies’ Cristopher Sanchez (8-2, 2.50 ERA) or Ranger Suarez (7-3, 1.94 ERA) were more deserving.

“Major League Baseball is really just focusing on the most marketable players,” Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos told The Athletic.

“So the fact that they can have somebody in the game that is going to basically blow out one inning and throw 103, 104 (mph), they’re going to get more eyeballs on baseball. They’re going to think it’s getting more popular.”

The Misiorowski controversy is far from the only intriguing topic heading into tonight’s game.

COMING UP ACES >> Even for an All-Star Game, this year’s starting pitching matchup is special.

Detroit’s Tarik Skubal, the Hayward native who is starting for the American League, and Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes, who is starting for the NL, both rank eighth or better among MLB pitchers in ERA, strikeouts, innings and WHIP.

The right-handed Skenes is set to face an AL lineup headlined by Aaron Judge in the No. 3 hole, while the lefty Skubal will see NL leadoff hitter Shohei Ohtani right out of the gate.

This is the second year in a row that the sophomore Skenes (4-8, 2.01 ERA) will start the All-Star Game. Skubal (10-3, 2.23 ERA), the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, is making his first All-Star start.

RALEIGH RALLY >> Seattle’s Cal Raleigh plays the majority of his games in Pacific Time, but tonight, a primetime audience will get a chance to witness the history-making slugger known as “Big Dumper.”

Raleigh’s MLB-leading 38 home runs were one shy of Barry Bonds’ 2001 record for homers before an All-Star break. They were 11 more than any other catcher has hit before a break.

The switch-hitting Raleigh is on pace for 64 home runs, which would break Aaron Judge’s single-season American League record of 62 and shatter Salvador Perez’s record for a catcher of 48.

A first-time All-Star, Raleigh is starting for the American League and batting fourth, meaning that he will catch Skubal and hit behind Judge. If anyone gets on base, Raleigh would face Skenes in the first.

PCA MANIA >> Another first-time All-Star is Pete Crow-Armstrong, the do-it-all Chicago Cubs outfielder in the midst of a breakout season.

Crow-Armstrong, 23, became the fourth-fastest to reach 25 homers and 25 stolen bases in a season, needing only 92 games to do so.

For all of his offensive exploits, Crow-Armstrong might be even more electrifying in center field, where he is set to start for the NL.

Crow-Armstrong was a 2020 first-round pick by the Mets, who traded him the following year to the Cubs for Javier Baez. In a stroke of serendipity, Baez is set to start for the AL in center field, a position the former infielder moved to this year.

“I think that’s really cool,” Crow-Armstrong said Friday at Yankee Stadium. “I don’t think ‘full circle’ is really the term for it, but it’s cool I’ll be playing across from him, playing the same position as him, when I never really thought that was going to be a thing.”

CLAYTON CELEBRATION >> Thanks to a “legend pick” by commissioner Rob Manfred, longtime Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will appear at his 11th — and potentially final — All-Star Game.

“I didn’t actually know that was a thing,” Kershaw said. “At the end of the day, it’s weird but it’s cool, so I’m just going to enjoy it.”

While Kershaw has not said whether he plans to retire after this year, his future has been the subject of speculation for several offseasons in a row.

Earlier this month, Kershaw became the 20th pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 strikeouts. The 37-year-old is 4-1 with a 3.38 ERA this season, his 18th.

Kershaw was the first player to earn a “legend” selection since Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera in 2022. Pujols retired after that season, while Cabrera played one more after that.

ALL ABOUT ABS >> MLB is using this year’s All-Star Game as another showcase for the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system.

Both teams will be given two challenges, which allow a pitcher, catcher or hitter to contest a ball or strike call. The same format was used at select spring training games to mixed results.

“I don’t think I’ll get that in-depth on it,” AL manager Aaron Boone said Friday.

“We’ll address it, probably, as a group, and that will be up to the individuals to use it as they see fit,” Boone said, adding with a laugh, “If they want to challenge one, they’ll have the freedom to do that, with the peer pressure of, ‘You better be right.’”

The All-Star Game comes ahead of a vote by MLB’s competition committee on whether to implement the ABS challenge system in regular-season games next year.