Vatcher then transferred to Cal State Northridge to play in NCAA Division II for the Matadors.

[2] In spite of that, largely because he stood only 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall, professional baseball scouts did not show much interest in Vatcher and Gordon Monson wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1987 that his "playing days [would] probably end" following his senior year at Northridge.

[3] He made his Major League debut on May 30, 1990, against the San Diego Padres at Veterans Stadium as a pinch hitter for Marvin Freeman.

[3][4] On August 9, he was sent along with Jeff Parrett to the Atlanta Braves as the player to be named later in the trade that had brought Dale Murphy to the Phillies.

By 1996, he had moved on to independent baseball, playing for the Madison Black Wolf of the Northern League.