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You have two choices.  You can play Hannahan "some", Carp "some", Tui "some" -- or you can pick any number of them and toss them overboard and not play them for the rest of the season.  (Same goes for Junior, Beltre, Lopez, etc.).  SOMEBODY has to play -- and SOMEBODY has to sit.  If you're gonna play Beltre, (and there are good reasons to do so), there simply aren't enough slots left to play everyone that has a reasonable argument for needing to be looked at more thoroughly.
Saunders was benched for good reason - but while benched, they obviously were working with him -- and from the results seen yesterday, that works seems to have paid off in spades.  If the argument holds that working with Saunders on the side, while the veteran Langerhans takes the field, why is it impossible to think the same justification isn't reasonable for Carp or Tui? 
Me?  I was a Carp fan when Carp was still in the Mets org.  I'd love to see more of him.  But, I definitely get the feeling that the current club has a *PLAN* for developing talent, and that if they are sitting him, it is NOT so he can rot on the bench.  They are likely sitting him to HELP his development.  (And, they are also playing him some to help his development).
But, when you don't have any of the inside knowledge that the coaches have - a nuanced approach for development is almost always going to APPEAR to be a haphazzard mess from the outside.