Winter League Managerial Career
On April 14, 2008, Kremblas accepted an offer to manage the Caracas Lions (Leones del Caracas), of the Venezuelan Winter League, in October 2008. He become the team's 32nd manager since it was established in 1952. This season marked his third year with a winter league baseball team; he previously coached in Venezuela in 2000 and managed in Mexico in 2004.
With the Leones del Caracas, Kremblas reached a record of 42 wins and 21 loses, setting an all-time record for most wins in a 63-game regular season. Those results were more than enough to grant him, unanimously, the "Manager of the Year" Award.
In the playoffs, Leones had a record of 9–7, reaching the finals against Tigres de Aragua, losing in 7 games. Team president, Luis Avila, confirmed in March 2009 that Kremblas would return to manage the team again for the 2009–2010 season, but he refused to manage the team, 3 months later, for personal reasons.
He returned to Venezuelan League in the 2010-11 season as a Manager for the Leones' archrival Navegantes del Magallanes. He had a record of 17 wins and 12 loses when he resigned, probably because of differences with Edgardo Alfonzo, the captain of the team at the time.
Currently he is once again Manager of the Leones del Caracas in the Venezuelan Winter League (2012-13 season) taking the team after five weeks from its beginning, when Rick Sweet was fired.
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