CC Sabathia didn’t defend Robinson Cano on the day Cano was hit with an 80-game suspension for performance-enhancing drug use, but now that a former teammate has spoken, the Yankees pitcher is clapping back.

A week after Mark Teixeira said he wasn’t “surprised” by Cano’s suspension, Sabathia responded to his former teammate’s take.

“I don’t want to get into what Tex said, but I’ll just put it like this: I’m not surprised he said that, coming from him,” Sabathia said Thursday on CBS Sports Radio’s “Tiki and Tierney” show.

Sabathia, who is close with Cano, added it “was disappointing and a little sad” the Mariners second baseman violated MLB’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

“You just never know anymore,” Sabathia said. “Guys’ bodies don’t change [like they did back in the PED era]. Hopefully he can bounce back from this and continue from this.”

Sabathia said last week, when asked about Cano “after the Ryan Braun thing, nothing’s surprising for me,” referring to his former Brewers teammate’s ban for PED use in 2013, but it was clear the veteran lefty had a bone to pick with Teixeira’s opinion, almost reusing the retired first baseman’s exact quote.

“I really don’t want to get into too much detail. I love Robbie. But, yeah, I’m just not surprised,” Teixeira, now an ESPN analyst, said last week on “The Michael Kay Show.”

“I don’t really want to go too much further. But I think a lot of people are kind of saying the same thing.”

Teixeira had pointed to Cano’s assistant being on the list for Biogenesis — the anti-aging clinic that supplied banned substances to MLB players, including Alex Rodriguez and Melky Cabrera, with whom Cano was friendly.

According to MLB, Cano tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic that is seen as a masking agent. The 35-year-old said he took it to treat a medical ailment and that he now wishes he “had been more careful.”

Cano’s former teammates were not all on the same page in the fallout of his suspension last week, at least not publicly, as Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada both said the news took them by surprise.