finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
2004 left tampa , florida 1986 july 15 .284 493 2,490 1,550 first baseman tampa bay devil rays batting average home runs hits runs batted in may 17 31 october 1963 fred mcgriff.jpg fred mcgriff
 toronto blue jays fred mcgriff left
fred mcgriff

frederick stanley mcgriff -lrb- born october 31 , 1963 in tampa , florida -rrb- is a former major league baseball player who played for six teams from 1986 through 2004 .
a power-hitting first baseman , he became a five-time all-star and led both leagues in home runs in separate years - the american league in 1989 and the national league in 1992 .
mcgriff finished his career with 493 home runs , tied with hall of fame player lou gehrig , and only seven homers away from joining the 500 home run club .
he won a world series title as a first baseman with the atlanta braves in 1995 .
he currently works in the tampa bay rays ' front office as an advisor and also for bright house sports network as a co-host for `` the baysball show '' .
mcgriff 's nickname , `` crime dog '' , one of the many humorous nicknames created by sports broadcaster chris berman , is a play on mcgruff , a cartoon dog created for american police to raise children 's awareness on crime prevention .
at first , mcgriff stated he would prefer `` fire dog '' -lrb- a reference to a fire in the press-box of atlanta -- fulton county stadium the day the braves acquired him from the padres ; symbolically , the then-slumping braves `` caught fire '' and ended up winning their division -rrb- , but since has stated that he actually is fond of the `` crime dog '' nickname .
