ATLANTA – Through the first four games of the Mets’ season, manager Willie Randolph has maintained that he’s not panicking, not worrying and not stressing over his team’s winless start.

Like manager, like general manager.

Of the four games the Mets have played – all of them on the road – GM Omar Minaya has attended just one, the heartbreaking 7-6 Opening Day loss to Cincinnati.

Since then, Minaya has tried to watch or at least monitor the games from back in New York. Asked if it’s been tough to watch, he made it clear that he doesn’t like to lose but again talked about the longevity of the season.

“You always want to win. When you’re a competitive person, you want to win. But baseball’s a long season. It’s a 162-game season,” he said in a phone conversation with The Post yesterday.

“I’d like to see Willie get his first win. We’ve had some close games. My experience, I’ve been around the game long enough that things happen in April, and in May and June you don’t think about those things.”

Minaya also said his team’s 0-4 start hasn’t changed his feelings about the team’s quality.

“No, just because you lose four games, you can’t change perception by losing four games. And even if you lose more games,” Minaya said. “And you’ve got to remember, I try to think of the big picture, not in the small window.

“I think we’ve made some changes in the organization this year and I feel we have a young team. We have a lot of new pieces. It takes time sometimes for all of it to come together. We’re not only a team in transition, we’re an organization in transition.”

The biggest fear for the Mets, their fans and their front office, it would seem, is coming home for tomorrow’s home opener at 0-6. It would be a bit humiliating, after all, to have Opening Day at Shea, replete with all the pomp and circumstance, only to have a group of unhappy fans welcoming a winless team.

“I don’t have any fear,” Minaya said of what it would be like if the Mets came home 0-6. “The first two road trips don’t make the season. I think it’s fair to say we have a young team in transition right now and those things are going to happen.

“The first game, we could have won that game. We lost it. And the other games have been close. . . . We’ll see how this team comes together.”

Asked if he thinks ownership – which spent close to $200 million this offseason – is upset about the sluggish start, Minaya replied, “Look, you want to win games, as many games as you can. I think our ownership has been in baseball long enough to know these are part of a long baseball season.”

On the surface, Minaya’s stance appears to be the correct one. The Mets have more talent than they’ve had in years, should have won at least one of their first four games and have a relatively deep starting rotation that should stave off prolonged losing streaks.

At the same time, the team is also without two key injured players (Mike Cameron and Kris Benson), has a leaky bullpen and has shown a disturbing tendency to play bad ball just when it matters most; rally-killing double plays and runners stranded on base so far seem all too common.

Still, Minaya isn’t worrying.

“You never like to get off to an 0-4 start,” he said. “But it happens in baseball. . . . We’ve been in most of the games. Unfortunately for us, we just haven’t been on the winning side.”