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Help me with a serious "joke trade"

In my dynasty H2H league, I usually send out some off-season trades in jest such as Joba, Ian Kennedy, and Damon for Johan with comments like, "If only the Twins could get so much from the Yankees..."

Well, one of my joke trades was Damon for Jason Bay, citing Damon's better 3-year averages.  The offer was returned with a supposedly joke offer of Bay for Hafner. But I'm wondering if this is really a joke.

Here's some background. SBs are 1 pt, HRs are 4 + 1 rbi + 1 r, for 6 pts total.  Position eligibility is easy in our league -- 5 games in the previous or current season -- so Hafner is easily eligible at 1B.  In my lineup as of now are:

1B - Ortiz (Hafner, Damon)
OF - Sizemore, Ichiro, Sheffield (Damon, Bruce; also Juan Rivera, Stephen Pearce, who may be dropped for the draft)
DH - Hafner

The obvious reasons for turning this down are that  two of my current infielders (Upton and Braun) may never play infield again, and then I will just have too many OFs.

But purely for this year, is it unreasonable to think Bay might out-perform Hafner in 2008?  What about over the next few years?

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