Google has announced a flagship win for its new Media CDN offering, with Major League Baseball (MLB) confirming its use for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) MLB.TV app. In 2022, the app has accounted for 11.5 billion minutes watched, suggesting that this could well be the biggest deal so far for the new CDN disruptor. There is still a caveat, however. MLB has been a Google Cloud Platform customer since 2020, so it is a little surprising to see that the announcement stresses that this is still a pilot deployment. The bulk of Faultline’s interest lies in the CDN elements of the wider announcement, but MLB will also be trialing AI-based data analytics. These will be used in real-time production workflows, using…