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On January 27, 2018, Decker signed a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta assigned him to the Gwinnett Stripers in the Class AAA International League, where he played in 15 games, hitting .274 with a home run and four RBIs before the Braves released him on May 1, 2018.

On May 22, 2018, the Washington Nationals signed Decker to a minor-league contract. The Nationals assigned him to the Syracuse Chiefs in the Class AAA International League. He was released on July 17, 2018.

On January 22, 2016, Decker signed a minor-league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. He appeared in 19 games for the Rays in 2016, hitting .154 and driving in a run, and in 99 games with the Durham Bulls in the Class AAA International League, where he hit .255 with 12 home runs and 35 RBIs.

On November 22, 2016, Decker signed a minor-league contract with the Oakland Athletics with an invitation to major-league spring training. In the final cut of spring training, the Athletics assigned Decker to the Nashville Sounds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League to begin the 2017 season. On April 15, 2017, the Athletics selected Decker's contract from Nashville and added him to the Oakland′s 25-man active roster. He hit .200 with an RBI in 17 games for Oakland, and the Athletics sent him outright to Nashville on May 13, 2017. He remained with the Sounds for the rest of the season, and during the year played in 93 games for Nashville, hitting .274 with six home runs and 36 RBIs. Decker elected free agency after the season's close.

On August 25, 2014, while Indianapolis was on the road for a game against the Columbus Clippers, fans created the Official Jaff Decker Fan Club, to root for Decker from Section 27 at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, while he played left field for the Indians against Columbus. The fan club disbanded in 2015.

Decker began 2013 with the Tucson Padres in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League.

Decker was called up to the Padres for the first time on June 12, 2013, to replace Cameron Maybin, who was placed on the disabled list, but he was optioned back to Tucson on June 14 without appearing in a game. He was recalled to San Diego on June 19 when Everth Cabrera went on the disabled list, and made two pinch-hitting appearances in which he walked and reached base on an error before being sent back to Tucson. He reached the major leagues for a third time on August 10, 2013, when Carlos Quentin was placed on the disabled list. On August 12, 2013, Decker recorded his first major-league hit, a solo home run off of Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacín during a 14-2 loss. Decker made seven starts for the Padres in left field in August 2013, playing in 13 games overall on the year and collecting four hits in 26 at-bats (.154). The Padres returned Decker to Tucson on August 26, 2013, when they called up Reymond Fuentes, and Decker stayed in Tucson after major-league rosters expanded to 40 players in September. At Tucson, Decker hit .286 for the season with 10 home runs and 40 RBIs.

The Padres designated Decker for assignment on November 20, 2013, to make room on their 40-man roster.

On November 25, 2013, the Padres traded Decker to the Pittsburgh Pirates along with Miles Mikolas for Alex Dickerson. The Pirates optioned him to the Indianapolis Indians in the Class AAA International League on March 25, 2014. During three stints with the Pirates during 2014, Decker played in five major-league games, going 0-for-5, and he played in 104 games for Indianapolis, hitting .257 with six home runs and 39 RBIs. In 2015, he had two major-league stints with the Pirates, playing in 23 games, hitting .214, and driving in a run, and played the rest of the year with Indianapolis, hitting .266 with three home runs and 26 RBIs in 69 games.

Promoted to the Lake Elsinore Storm in the Class A-Advanced California League in 2010, Decker hit .262 with an .874 OPS, hit 17 home runs, and drove in 58 runs, but he was limited to 79 games by injuries. When he was placed with the San Antonio Missions in the Class AA Texas League in 2011, Decker's average fell to .236, but he hit 19 home runs, stole 15 bases, and scored 90 runs in 133 games, holding his OPS at .790. The San Diego Padres added Decker to their 40-man roster over the 2011-2012 offseason, and he started the 2012 season with San Antonio. He suffered from plantar fasciitis early in the season and then tore his plantar tendon on May 31, 2012. This limited him to only 47 games and a .184 batting average, three home runs, and nine RBIs with San Antonio. Combined with a nine-game rehabilitation stint with the AZL Padres in which he batted .296, hit a home run, and drove in seven runs, he played in only 56 games and had only a .201 average for the 2012 season as a whole.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Decker grew up in neighboring Peoria, where he attended Sunrise Mountain High School. As a senior, in 2008, Decker was named the Arizona state high school baseball player of the year.

The San Diego Padres selected Decker in the first round, with the 42nd overall selection, of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. He began his professional career in 2008 with 49 games with the AZL Padres in the rookie-level Arizona League, where he had a batting average of .352 and had five home runs and 34 runs batted in (RBIs), and three games with the Eugene Emeralds of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League, where he went 2-for-10, giving him an overall batting average of .343 for the season. He played the full 2009 season with the Fort Wayne TinCaps in the Class A Midwest League, putting up a .299 batting average and .956 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) in 104 games with 16 home runs and 64 RBIs. He was ranked among Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects heading into 2010.

Jaff Kyle Decker (pronounced "Jeff"; born February 23, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He has previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Rays, and Oakland Athletics.