Cody Marshall Decker (born January 17, 1987) is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

[1] Playing for Santa Monica High School in California, Decker batted .490 and was Ocean League MVP his senior year.

[6] In 2005, Decker was Ocean League MVP, Division IV Southern Section All-CIF first-team, and named to the Los Angeles Times All-South Bay/Westside Region team.

[6] Decker then attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on a baseball scholarship, where he majored in History, minored in Film, and was a designated hitter, first baseman, and left fielder for the UCLA Bruins baseball team.

[3] The San Diego Padres selected Decker in the 22nd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft.

[2][4][14][15] In 2010, Decker was fourth in the California League in home runs (28; tied for the lead among Padres minor leaguers), sixth in doubles (35), seventh in RBIs (90; second-best among Padres minor leaguers), and ninth in walks (60), with the High-A Lake Elsinore Storm.

[13] Decker missed nearly three months of the 2011 season with a severe third-degree right ankle sprain, though he hit 15 home runs in 59 games, 13 of them in Double–A.

[17][18][19][20] In 2012, Decker finished second in the Texas League in home runs (25), third in slugging percentage (.540), and tenth in RBIs (68) with the AA San Antonio Missions.

[13] Decker split the 2013 season between San Antonio and Tucson, hitting 19 home runs (second among Padres minor leaguers) with 70 RBIs.

[23] In 2014, Decker tied for fourth in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) in home runs with 27 for the Triple–A El Paso Chihuahuas, and led all Padres minor leaguers in homers.

[28] Sam Geaney, the Padres Director of Player Development, described him as "big-time right-handed power.

"[30] Announcer Tim Hagerty said he had not ever seen a ballplayer connect with a team's fan base as Decker did with El Paso.

[38] Decker had been managed by Pat Murphy, the Brewers bench coach, when both of them were in the San Diego Padres system.

[41] He was the leading active career minor league home run hitter at the time, with 173.

During the opening game Decker went 1-for-3 with a double, an RBI on a sacrifice fly, and a run scored, with one strikeout, before being replaced defensively by Mitch Glasser.

[61] Decker played for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic main tournament, in March 2017.

The mascot is "Mensch on the Bench", a five-foot-tall plush stuffed toy that looks a bit like a rabbi or Hasidic Jew with a long beard and mustache who is wearing a tallis and holding a candle.

[71] Decker has earned his Screen Actors Guild card, and had a cameo in the NBC espionage thriller State of Affairs.

[72] In 2014, while playing with the El Paso Chihuahuas in AAA, for the first month of the season he convinced veteran outfielder Jeff Francoeur that their teammate, pitcher Jorge Reyes, was deaf.

[1][7][73] Reyes cooperated with the prank, maintaining the appearance of being deaf by not speaking or listening to music.

[74][75] Decker filmed and produced a seven-minute documentary, "On Jeff Ears,"[76] revealing the truth to Francoeur.

[1][79] The following year, after his Chihuahuas teammate Tommy Medica was featured as the love interest in a music video for a song by R&B artist Princess Eze, Decker recut the music video as the trailer for a thriller film dubbed "Tank Top Tommy.

[86][87][88] He has also appeared in several videos for the YouTube channel Screen Junkies, most notably the debate series Movie Fights.

On December 23, 2016, Decker became engaged to model and sports journalist Jenn Sterger, whom he met on Twitter.