 Batters signed as a free agent with the San Jose Sharks in September 1995.He spent the entire 1995–96 season with the Kansas City Blades where he amassed 223 penalty minutes in 77 games.He died at age 25 as one of two fatalities after the pickup truck he was driving drifted off the highway and tumbled into a ditch near Canmore, Alberta on August 23, 1996.