As long as they choose to keep Nicasio and Alvarez (and any other pitcher without options), the reality is that we only have a couple of spots to rotate pitchers with options through. Since we can rotate more than 2 pitchers into these spots, the 10-days-in-the-minors limits don't hurt them that much as Anderson, Eickhoff, De Los Santos, Ramos, and Arano are pretty even talent-wise and interchangeable if the purpose of these moves is to make sure the bullpen has a fresh arm available whenever they have a stretch where they are collectively overused (like the last 2 games).
