The conventional wisdom is still that lower-leverage relievers pitch multiple innings (and are less match-up based). Banks came here as a two-inning reliever, and now he's sunk back down there in the pecking order. Strahm and Hoffman were the same way when they were used more in the 6th or 7th than the 8th or 9th.
The same often flawed logic seems to apply to pitching with men on base or even mid-inning. You highest-leverage relievers can't be asked to do it, paradoxically.
