TAMPA — Domingo German is still a Yankee after serving a Major League Baseball-mandated suspension for violating the league’s domestic violence protocols, but that doesn’t mean his teammates have to be pleased about it.

Zack Britton said Thursday he doesn’t expect an explanation from German about what transpired that led to the ban, but he also didn’t sound thrilled he was still around.

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

Later on Thursday, Britton defended his position on Twitter when someone profanely questioned why he was “worried about” German after German was “punished for his mistakes and you still don’t know the circumstances of what took place.”

“You think I don’t know the circumstances? Get a clue bud,’’ Britton said in response. “[I] was asked the question BTW, gave my answer. Don’t care if you are sensitive to it.”

German and Britton were both in attendance at the team’s minor league complex on Thursday and participated in the first workout of the spring after what has been a very turbulent year and a half for German.

The 28-year-old was suspended for 81 games last January after an incident with his girlfriend in September 2019. He missed all of 2020 and also seemingly retired from baseball in an Instagram post last season before taking it back.

Then on Wednesday, Aaron Boone said he — along with general manager Brian Cashman and bench coach Carlos Mendoza — spoke with German “welcoming him back” to the team.

German followed with another cryptic message Wednesday night indicating in Spanish that something was “over,” but later in the night deleted that message and wrote another one that said, “I’m ready” in Spanish.

Boone said Thursday he talked again with German about the messages on Instagram and acknowledged it’s worrisome.

“When I first heard about it [Wednesday] night and saw it, it was brought to my attention, I was taken aback a little bit and immediately concerned,” Boone said. “But I do feel like [it was] maybe a little bit out of context. A little bit overblown. And I am confident that he’s doing fine and doing well and ready to compete.”

He also cautioned, “but it is something we’ll continue to watch and as best we can try and make sure he’s in a good place. But I had the conversation about trying to be as smart and choosy as we can be about some of the things we’re expressing publicly.”

German figures to be in line to compete for the No. 5 spot in the rotation, along with a list that includes Deivi Garcia, Clarke Schmidt and Jhoulys Chacin.

On Wednesday, Boone had said, “We feel like he’s in a good place coming in and now it’s on him to go out and kind of resurrect his career and compete for a spot on this team.’’

German is not making it any easier with the repeated mistakes, from the very serious to the less severe gaffes.

And it’s clear his teammates have taken notice.

“I don’t think he owes anything to me,’’ Britton said. “My job is to go out there and pitch and do my job. So that’s kind of what my concern is right there. But he doesn’t owe me anything. I think that’s something he’s going to have to deal with on his own and make better choices going forward.’’