{"id":220791,"date":"2026-03-26T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:07:11","slug":"g-p-grad-janek-to-start-season-with-hooks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220791\/","title":{"rendered":"G-P grad Janek to start season with Hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walker Janek will be making his return to the Coastal Bend as one of the Astros&#8217; top prospects.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 One of the Coastal Bend&#8217;s top professional baseball players is making his return to the area as former Gregory-Portland Wildcat Walker Janek will start the season with the Corpus Christi Hooks.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, eight days before the Hooks&#8217; season and home opener on April 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Janek was a standout at Houston&#8217;s spring training, with the catcher hitting .455 in seven games to go along with a homerun and four stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Gregory-Portland in 2021, Janek went on to win the Buster Posey Award for the nation&#8217;s top collegiate catcher. He was then selected by the Astros in the first round of the 2024 draft. Janek will start the season as Houston&#8217;s #5 overall prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Janek will be the first Coastal Bend product to play for the Hooks since Carroll grad Brooks Kieschnick in 2005, the team&#8217;s inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s official: former Gregory-Portland Wildcat Walker Janek will start the season with the Corpus Christi Hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Janek is the Astros&#8217; fifth-ranked prospect as he makes his return to the Coastal Bend.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cchooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CCHooks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiii3sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Kiii3sports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/3SportsBlitz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#3SportsBlitz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6fUGFnXecK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6fUGFnXecK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Thomasson &#8211; KIII Sports (@ChrisThomasson7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisThomasson7\/status\/2036897924076949923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker Janek will be making his return to the Coastal Bend as one of the Astros&#8217; top prospects.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-220791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}