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Former Major League Baseball superstar slugger Manny Ramirez will join the Chicago Cubs as a player-coach for the team's top developmental club, Cubs general manager Theo Epstein said Sunday. Ramirez, a lifetime .312 hitter with 555 home runs over 19 seasons, has not appeared in the major leagues since a five-game stint with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011, which ended when he retired after failing a second doping test. In 2009, Ramirez was suspended 50 games after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance while with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Epstein knows Ramirez from their glory days together with the Boston Red Sox, when Epstein was general manager for most of Ramirez's Boston run from 2001-08, which saw the Red Sox win the 2004 and 2007 World Series.
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