The Seattle Mariners offered Robinson Cano a $240 million contract after they heard that Cano was considering a $225 million offer. Not until it was too late did they discover that they were the ones who’d made the $225 million offer….

According to the Dallas Morning News:

By mid-day Friday, Seattle had heard that some team bid nine years and $225 million for Robinson Cano, so the Mariners upped their bid to $240 million and 10 years before apparently realizing the initial bid had come from themselves, too.

Of course, the original mistake was offering Cano anything more than five years….