PHOENIX — Brandon Moss is the A's cleanup hitter Wednesday against the Cleveland Indians in Goodyear, Ariz.

It's one of a handful of times that Moss has hit cleanup this spring.

``I've done it before on days when (Yoenis) Cespedes hasn't been in the lineup,'' Moss said.

Wednesday, Cespedes is in the lineup.

Manager Bob Melvin says there's no reason to read too much into the lineup. He said he just wanted to have a left-handed bat between two right-handed hitters, Josh Donaldson and Cespedes. The implication was that Cespedes' .128 average this spring had nothing to do with the move.

And Moss said that Cespedes' average shouldn't be a matter of great concern.

``If he was up there raking and was hitting .128, and really feeling good at the plate, that would be one thing,'' Moss said. ``But he's up there working on things, trying to shorten his swing.''

For Moss, that makes all the difference in looking at the stats.

``When he's going up there, he's thinking about that, about trying to get that swing down,'' Moss said. ``That's hard. When you have that much going on in your head and you aren't just swinging naturally, that's tough.

``He's going to be fine.''