The Scott Kazmir era with the Rays is officially over. It was unofficially over about a year and a half ago when the putative ace became predictably unreliable with his pitch counts and mechanics. The Rays’ all-time leader in wins and strikeouts was traded to the Angels for three players who may never make it onto a Rays’ roster, but the trade had to be made. The bottom line: Kazmir returned too little for too much money. The Rays are not Boston or New York; they can’t afford to overpay and write it off. But had Kazmir lived up to his end of a deal that would have paid him a minimum of $22.5 million over the next two years, the Rays would have found a way to keep him.