Adrian Cárdenas Rubio (born October 10, 1987) is an American former professional baseball second baseman.

He hid on a boat docked at Matanzas Bay, but was caught in Havana and sent to a labor camp in Turiguanó.

[2] Cárdenas was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft out of Monsignor Pace High School,[3] where he graduated in the top ten percent of his class.

On July 17, 2008, the Phillies traded Cárdenas, Josh Outman and Matthew Spencer to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Joe Blanton.

To start the 2010 season, Cárdenas was ranked ninth in Oakland's farm system according to Baseball America[9] and again was at big-league camp as a non-roster invitee.

On January 26, 2012, Cárdenas was designated for assignment by the Athletics to make room on the 40-man roster for new signee Jonny Gomes.

[13] He returned to the creative writing and philosophy department at New York University, from which he had been taking part-time classes since 2010.

[3] He graduated in 2015,[14] and returned to NYU to obtain a master of fine arts degree which he received in 2018.