TAMPA — Domingo German’s return to the Yankees will include speaking to his teammates about the incident that caused him to receive an 81-game suspension and miss all of last season.

The right-hander released a statement through the Yankees on Sunday, when he was scheduled to address the media for the first time since the September 2019 incident with his girlfriend that led to his ban by Major League Baseball several months later for violating the league’s domestic violence protocols.

“It is important to me that I have the opportunity to speak directly with my teammates individually and collectively and address them face to face before I speak to the media and fans,’’ German said in the statement. “This process has begun, but more time is needed, especially since half our team has yet to report to spring training. I recognize that speaking publicly will be an important step for me and I will do so in the upcoming days.”

Aaron Boone supported the decision after saying previously he would not force the 28-year-old to do so.

“It’s important to me that when we talk about Domingo addressing certain situations, it’s important to me that he comes to that place authentically on his own and not because I’m telling him to or somebody in the organization is telling him to do something,’’ Boone said. “That, in a lot of ways, defeats the purpose. I feel like as these couple of days have unfolded, I feel like we’re in a better place moving forward, but we’ve still got a ways to go.”

Including with his teammates, something made clear by Zack Britton.

Last week Britton said, “You don’t get to control who your teammates are and that’s the situation. I don’t agree with what [German] did. I don’t think it has any place in the game or off the field or at all.”

One teammate German has already spoken with about the incident is Aroldis Chapman, who served a 30-game suspension by MLB for the use of a handgun during a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend in 2015. News of the incident helped prevent his trade from the Reds to the Dodgers and he was shipped to the Yankees later that offseason.

Chapman said Sunday he encouraged German to talk to his teammates. The closer said through an interpreter the two had a “long conversation” on Saturday about German’s last year and a half.

“The experience I had and his experience is somewhat different,’’ Chapman said. “If you remember, I was coming into a new team [and] didn’t really know my teammates at the time. That’s completely different from his situation. He’s returning to his team, where practically 99 percent of the players he knows and has had some kind of relationship with them.”

Chapman added German’s teammates “have to find a way to support him.”

German, as The Post reported shortly after the incident, was allegedly physically abusive with his girlfriend on the night he and his teammates were honoring CC Sabathia at an event in Manhattan.

On a significantly smaller scale, German’s issues have also included cryptic messages online, including one in which he retired from baseball last year while serving his ban.

The situation with German and his relationship with his teammates caused Boone to admit he needed to improve in one aspect of his job.

Boone said he didn’t read the clubhouse “as well as I should have.”

“One of my jobs is constantly trying to take the temperature of our guys and what’s going on,” Boone said. “It’s a little different now in the pandemic world. It’s a little more challenging at times … [but I’m] still capable of it. Still I’m able to interact with my guys for the most part as much as I needed. It’s not simple.’’