FORT MYERS, Fla. — The heights Fred Lynn’s career would have reached had he never left Fenway Park? It’s a discussion that’s into its fourth decade.

Lynn has said he believes that Hall of Fame consideration wouldn’t have been out of the question had he remained with the Red Sox. That’s what being a lefthanded hitter at Fenway meant to him.

Lynn’s story is the perfect segue to the 2011 tale of Adrian Gonzalez, and the lefthanded-hitting legacy he may forge in the years to come.

Whereas Lynn left the Sox in a trade to the Angels after the 1980 season, Gonzalez, acquired by the Sox from the Padres in the offseason, is coming to Fenway in the prime of his career. What could that mean in terms of home runs, doubles off the Wall, and other mind-boggling numbers? It’s an interesting subject, as old as the Wall itself.

Wade Boggs’s .369 average is the highest of any lefthanded Red Sox hitter at Fenway, among players with 1,000 or more at-bats, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He is followed by Ted Williams (.361), Tris Speaker and Lynn (.347), and Pete Runnels (.332).

Fenway has been romanticized as a righthanded power hitter’s dream: Pull the ball with some loft and you’ll hit 50 or 60 homers. But other than Jimmie Foxx’s 1938 season, when he hit 35 of his 50 homers at Fenway and drove in 101 of his 175 runs, while hitting .405 with a 1.399 OPS, it hasn’t always worked out that way for righty hitters. But lefthanded hitters such as Boggs, Lynn, Runnels, Carl Yastrzemski, and Mo Vaughn often went the opposite way, hitting the ball off or over the Wall.

Lefthanded pull hitters such as Mike Greenwell, Trot Nixon, J.D. Drew, David Ortiz, and yes, even Williams, probably wish they had peppered that side of the field a bit more.