Addison Reed is the Mets’ setup man, the reliever who pitches the penultimate inning of the game based on the modern construction of baseball bullpens. All innings count the same, yet closers, who handle the game’s final inning, get much of the fame and the financial rewards that come with it.

Closers get to pump their fists, untuck their jerseys or mime shooting arrows into the sky when the victory is secured. Even the name of the statistic that defines their success has a tinge of the dramatic: save.

The reliever who tosses at least the final inning of a victory of three runs or fewer, or finishes the game with the potential tying run on base, at the plate or on deck, is rewarded with a save in the box score. The qualifications are a mouthful — and arbitrary — but the statistic is ubiquitous.

“People like the saves,” Reed said.

Reed was once a closer himself. From 2012 to 2014, he averaged 34 saves a season for the Chicago White Sox and the Arizona Diamondbacks. After some struggles, a demotion to the minor leagues and a trade to the Mets in August 2015, he blossomed into one of baseball’s best setup men. Still, saves are rewarded in baseball’s salary-arbitration system, so the saves Reed racked up earlier in his career contributed to his sizable $7.75 million salary for the 2017 season.