Manny Ramirez is coming back to baseball, as a player-coach for the Cubs' Triple-A team, according to an ESPN.com report.

Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein announced in a statement Sunday that Ramirez "is not and will not" be on the Cubs' major-league roster, stating that the once-feared slugger will serve as a mentor to Chicago's minor-league hitters in Des Moines, Iowa.