Moseley gets rotation spot

Manager Mike Scioscia confirmed after Wednesday’s 2-0 exhibition victory over Oakland that Dustin Moseley has edged out Hector Carrasco for the final rotation spot.

Moseley, a 25-year-old right-hander who went 2-0 with a 2.29 earned-run average in 19 2/3 innings this spring, will make at least two starts before being replaced by Jered Weaver, who is scheduled to return April 16.

“He’s earned it,” Scioscia said of Moseley, who went 13-8 with a 4.63 ERA in 26 triple-A starts last season and 1-0 with a 9.00 ERA in three games for the Angels. “With Dustin throwing the ball well, it gives us more depth in the bullpen with Hector.”

Carrasco signed with the Angels as a starter -- his two-year, $6.1-million contract includes $1.75 million in incentives based on games started every year. But the Angels signed Jeff Weaver to fill out the rotation last spring, and Carrasco pitched almost exclusively in relief, going 7-3 with a 3.41 ERA in 56 games -- three of them starts.

“Whatever Mike wants to do is fine with me,” Carrasco said. “I’m not mad. I know there are a lot of incentives in my contract to start, but I don’t care about that. I’m here for the team.”

Minor development

John Lackey gave up four runs and seven hits, including two home runs, in six innings of a triple-A game against Oakland in his final tuneup before Monday’s opening-night start against Texas.

The Angels held Lackey out of the big league game to control his workload -- one inning was cut short when his pitch count got too high. Lackey threw 96 pitches, struck out four and walked two.

“The arm feels good, the body feels good,” Lackey said. “Everything is in good shape, ready to go.”

Jeff Mathis caught Lackey and also had an interesting experience at the plate when Kaz Tadano, the A’s right-hander, threw him a floater that bounced on the plate for a ball.

“I wasn’t sure if he slipped or let it go,” Lackey said of Tadano. “I could never throw that pitch. I’d blow my back out trying to do it.”

Change of pace

Francisco Rodriguez threw one inning of a double-A game against the A’s so the closer could pitch on consecutive days for the first time this spring. He gave up a run on a solo homer and threw 18 pitches, one of them an outstanding changeup that was clocked at 82 mph, well off his 95-mph fastball pace.

“I’ve been working on it all spring and throwing it for strikes,” said Rodriguez, who has relied almost exclusively on his fastball and one of baseball’s most vicious sliders. “I think I have a pretty good third pitch now. Hopefully, I’ll mix it in more during the season.”

Around the horn

The Angels nearly lost two bench players on the same play when outfielder Reggie Willits took a knee to the head when he was thrown out trying to go from first to third on Erick Aybar’s eighth-inning single to left, and Aybar, a utility infielder, suffered a sprain in his left foot while sliding into second. Willits, who had two hits, said he was “a little woozy” after the play but felt better after the game, and Scioscia said Aybar’s injury is not serious.... Top pitching prospect Nick Adenhart gave up three hits in five scoreless innings against the A’s, and relievers Justin Speier and Darren Oliver each threw scoreless innings.

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mike.digiovanna@latimes.com