{"id":486838,"date":"2026-02-20T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486838\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:21:09","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-dog-decoy-is-putting-the-colorado-rockies-to-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486838\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s dog Decoy is putting the Colorado Rockies to shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decoy Ohtani is popular.<\/p>\n<p>By one measure, Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s dog is much more revered than the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MLB&#8217;s social media account on X has shared 11 posts this offseason involving Decoy.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve shared five about the Rockies in any form.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unfortunately, this is not a joke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The MLB \ud835\udd4f account has posted more about Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s dog (Decoy) this off-season than the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude06 \ud835\udde2\ud835\uddf5\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf6 mentions: 11<br \/>\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddfc \ud835\udde5\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00 mentions: 5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanClarkSports\/status\/2024621372652306723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/theres-one-question-pirates-phenom-konnor-griffin-needs-answer\/e52ced688826dcf440f9eae9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">There&#8217;s one question Pirates phenom Konnor Griffin needs to answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, can you really blame the social media team?<\/p>\n<p>Decoy is cute and adorable. He&#8217;s the dog of the most talented baseball player ever, a multi-cultural icon who plays for the back-to-back World Series champs.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies were one of the worst teams in baseball history in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As far as engagement goes, there&#8217;s really no contest.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Decoy is very excited for his first starring literary role \ud83d\ude02 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s3v5XDYxH3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/s3v5XDYxH3<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5nhQDJxIU4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5nhQDJxIU4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/2017651904168202701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the season gets going, the MLB account will have more actual baseball content to share.<\/p>\n<p>They still might find a way to get Decoy some action, though. Who doesn&#8217;t love a dog?<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Decoy Ohtani is popular. By one measure, Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s dog is much more revered than the entire Colorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-486838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}