Manny Ramirez will join the Triple-A Iowa Cubs on Thursday as a player/coach, the team has announced.

Ramirez, 42, was signed by the team in late May and has been at the Cubs spring training facility in Arizona working with minor league and rehabbing players while getting into game shape himself.

"We have some exciting, young offensive prospects and Manny knows as much about hitting as anybody," Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said.

"I think he can enhance the solid hitting instruction we already have in the minor leagues. Manny is probably the calmest right-handed hitter I've seen in the box and so if he can help teach that calmness to just one player in our system it will be worth it."