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I've never tried this but it sounds like an interesting experiment. Are you playing as GM, Manager or both? If you're playing as both, which I assume you are since you want to implement this strategy yourself, make sure you adjust the "strategy" setting to your liking. "Overall" and individual "player" strategy. Turn up steals, baserunning aggressiveness, bunt for hit, hit & run, etc.
On offense, since you're not looking for power hitters, look for very solid defensive/speed/contact players. Contact is important. Speed/Defense will only get you so far if your guys can't get on base. The defense will come in to play for the pitching, which...
For pitchers, I'd look for groundball pitchers. Flyball pitchers give up more HR typically, obviously. Since a lot of your games will probably be low scoring for your offense (with no power hitters) giving up HRs will be your kryptonite. Go for groundball pitchers and pick a ballpark where that will be enhanced. You can check the ballpark settings under "Home" and then "Settings". It will tell you the amount of doubles, triples, HR, etc. hit in that park versus every other park.
As far as a broader outlook, I would still draft the best available players. If they fit your system, even better. But I would never pass up on a huge potential player for a lesser one that fits your team's style of play. You can always trade the prospects for ML players that fit your team. Always draft the best available. (ie. draft the 60/70 flyball pitcher instead of the 40/40 groundball pitcher.)
Hope that helps a little, at least. Like I said I've never tried what you're attempting to do, I'm just giving advice based on what has worked for me. Especially the pitching part. I play in Fenway as the Sox and I always want groundball pitchers on my ML team. (But I'll draft the best available.)
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